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JUNE 2008The Quarterly Magazine ofWake Forest University

F EATURESEDITORCherin C. Poovey (P ’08), poovey@wfu.eduASSOCIATE EDITORKerry M. King (’85), kingkm@wfu.eduDESIGN / ART DIRECTIONUrena Design, durena@triad.rr.comPHOTOGRAPHERKen Bennett, bennettk@wfu.eduCLASSNOTES EDITORJanet Williamson (P ’00, ’03), williajm@wfu.eduSENIOR WRITERDavid Fyten, fyten@wfu.eduSTAFF WRITERKim McGrath, mcgratka@wfu.eduPRINTINGThe Lane Press, Inc.Burlington,VermontWake Forest Magazine (USPS 664-520 ISSN0279-3946) is published four times a year inSeptember, December, March, and June bythe Office of Creative Services,Wake Forest University, Box 7205,Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7205.It is sent to alumni, donors, and friends of theUniversity. Periodicals postage paid atWinston-Salem, NC 27109,and additional mailing offices.POSTMASTER: Send address changes toWake Forest Magazine Alumni RecordsP.O. Box 7227Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7227.Volume 55, Number 4June 200820 Against the WindBy David FytenTo New Orleanians, this place is home and no placeelse will do. Hurricanes and floods are part of thedeal. You make your repairs and move on. With thehelp of Wake Forest alumni and students.2 A ROUND THE Q UAD56 C LASSNOTESCopyright 2008WWW.WFU.EDU

46 Class of the FinestFarewell to a quartet of facultygiants: a Dante scholar, apioneering artist, the longtimechair of classical languages,and a stalwart of physics.P ROFILE54 Stroke of BrillianceBy Karilon L. RogersNo stranger to success, law/MBAstudent Jamie Dean (’05) goes aftera Paralympic gold medal.C ONSTANT & TRUE80 We are Wake ForestBy Nathan O. HatchAs we look forward to the University’s strategic plan, we arekeeping the best of Wake Forest’s traditions and updating themwith a bold vision. The sum of all these parts is the new logo.

Seventeen years (but who’s counting?)Once again, Wake Forest beats the odds and basks in glorious weather atCommencement—as well as the wise words of a Washington sage.ROSENCRANTZ AND GuildensternAre Dead, Tom Stoppard’sabsurdist play about thebackstage musings of a tandemof minor characters in Hamlet asthey await their entrances, openswith them flipping a coin. Rosencrantzbets heads every time andwins ninety-two flips in a row asGuildenstern wonders how thatcan possibly be.Evidently Commencementat Wake Forest is a coin and theofficials who plan the event areRosencrantz, for, once again, theday came up heads May 19. Forthe seventeenth consecutive year,rain, rain went away to comeagain another day and the exerciseswere conducted at theiraccustomed location—outdoorson Hearn Plaza in clear, crisp2 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

For more photographs and stories of Commencement 2008, see www.wfu.edu/magazineA R O U N D T H E Q U A DMichael Christatoscelebrates with hisparents, Mike and Leslie.Michael Chappell ofWake Forest, NorthCarolina, proudlyshows off his daughterBrittany’s diploma.place to be able to say that youwere part of the generation thattransformed a time of peril andconfusion into an era ofreform and renewal. And Iactually believe you’ll do it.”Dionne received anhonorary doctor of humaneletters degree. Five othersalso received honorarydegrees. The Right Rev.Vashti Murphy McKenzie,the first female bishop of the AfricanMethodist Episcopal Church,received an honorary doctor ofdivinity degree; she spoke at theBaccalaureate service on May 18.Catherine D. DeAngelis, the firstfemale editor-in-chief of the Journalof the American Medical Association,received an honorary doctorof science degree; she spoke at theSchool of Medicine’sHooding Ceremony.Richard A. Noll,chief executive officerof HanesbrandsInc., received an honorary doctorof laws degree; he spoke at theBabcock Graduate School of Management’sHooding Ceremony.James M. Talent, a former UnitedStates senator from Missouri,also received an honorary doctorof laws degree; he spoke at theSchool of Law’s HoodingCeremony. And RobertWuthnow, chair of thesociology departmentat Princeton University,received an honorarydoctor of humaneletters degree.—David FytenNew alumnae Laura Johnson, ClaireWiggins, and Emily G.White.Retiring FacultyThe following retiring faculty members were recognized at Commencement:FROM THE REYNOLDA CAMPUSJohn L. Andronica, Professor of Classical LanguagesWilliam C. Kerr, Professor of PhysicsRobert H. Knott, Professor of ArtAllen Mandelbaum, W.R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of HumanitiesFROM THE BOWMAN GRAY CAMPUSJulia M. Cruz, Professor of Hematology and Oncology,Internal MedicineJoseph M. Ernest, Professor Maternal/Fetal Medicine,Obstetrics and GynecologyMichael R. Lawless, Professor of PediatricsDavid L. McCullough, Professor of Urology, SurgicalSciencesWilliam Fred McGuirt Sr., Professor of Otolaryngology,Surgical SciencesGrover R. Mims, Associate Professor of AnesthesiologyDixon M. Moody, Professor of Radiology, Radiologic SciencesJames E. Smith, Professor of Physiology and PharmacologyRonald D. Smith, Associate Professor of General Surgery,Surgical SciencesDouglas R. White, Associate Professor of Hematology andOncology, Internal MedicineFrank B. Wood, Professor of Neuropsychology, NeurologyRalph D. Woodruff, Associate Professor of PathologyFive other faculty from the Bowman Gray Campuswho retired at the end of the 2006–2007 academic yearalso were recognized:David H. Buss, Professor of PathologyJames E. Byrum, Jr., Associate Professor of EmergencyMedicine, Surgical SciencesCarol C. Cunningham, Professor of BiochemistryJohn W. Hartz, Associate Professor of PathologyWilliam E. Sonntag, Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology4 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Calloway Schoolreceives major giftsTHE CALLOWAY SCHOOL OFBusiness and Accountancyreceived two significant giftsthis spring.The BB&T Foundation hascommitted $2 million over tenyears to fund a major newacademic initiative, the BB&TCenter for the Study of Capitalism.Professor of Business PageWest has been appointed asthe center’s first director andBB&T Fellow.The new center will offercourses, seminars, andspeakers on capitalism, andfaculty teaching and researchsupport. Calloway SchoolDean Jack Wilkerson said thecenter will make studentsthink more deeply aboutthe moral and philosophicalunderpinnings and implicationsof capitalism.The Calloway School alsoreceived a $500,000 gift fromthe Ernst & Young Foundationto create a student professionaldevelopment andadvising center. The Ernst &Young Professional DevelopmentCenter will offer professionaldevelopment programsand advising services to allCalloway School majors. It willbe housed on the ground floorof Kirby Hall.University introduces new logoAcademic mark does not replace seal, athletics marksWAKE FOREST is introducinga visual expression ofits strategic plan this summer,and part of the graphic standardspackage includes a new logo, oracademic mark. The new logodoes not replace the Universityseal, which will still be used forofficial documents, formal programsand on diplomas. Nordoes it replace athletic marks:Wake Forest teams will continueto use the Demon Deacon andthe “block” WF type-logo.New logo (top) and old logo (bottom)The new logo—which replacesthe “bar” logo created in 1984 —features an academic shield,similar to the one found in theUniversity seal. A stylized “WF”invokes the “WFC” ironworkprominent on campus and imagesof the tree branches on HearnPlaza. The alternating colors ofblack and gold are intended toshow the duality of Wake Forest:a collegiate university with theresources of a large university, aschool that values teaching aswell as scholarship, and a placewhere students and alumni dogood and do well in the spirit ofPro Humanitate. (President NathanO. Hatch tells the story of thenew logo on page 80.)The process began more thana year ago. RBMM, a nationallyrecognized identity design agencybased in Dallas, conducted extensiveresearch, focus groups, andinterviews with alumni, faculty,staff, and students. A 23-membercommittee of faculty, students,administrators, and staff, representingboth the Reynolda andBowman Gray campuses, managedthe process.The logo is “evolutionary butnot revolutionary,” honoring elementsof the University’s pastwhile reflecting the ideals of thestrategic plan. The visual identityalso includes new templates,color palettes, typefaces, andeditorial and photography guidelinesthat will be used in publicationsand on the Web site toensure that the University presentsa consistent look and messageto alumni, current andprospective students, and thepublic. The University’s Website will be restructured andredesigned over the next year.A R O U N D T H E Q U A Dwww.wfu.edu/wowf JUNE 2008 5

A R O U N D T H E Q U A DNational debate championsJUNIORS SETH GANNON ANDALEX LAMBALLE won theNational Debate Tournamentin March, the second nationalchampionship in the storied historyof debate at Wake Forest.Gannon and Lamballe defeateda team from Dartmouth Collegein the final round of the tournament,held at California StateUniversity in Fullerton, California,to win the national title. In 1997,Brian Prestes (’97) and DaveedGartenstein-Ross (’98) won WakeForest’s first national championshipin debate.Going into the tournament,Gannon and Lamballe were rankedseventh in the nation. Two otherWake Forest teams—SeungwonChung and Doowon Chung, andLauren Sabino and Carlos Maza—also qualified for the tournament,which featured seventy-eightteams from around the country.Gannon, an English majorfrom Atlanta, was ranked the 10thindividual speaker among the156 debaters. Lamballe, a politicalscience major from Nashville,Tennessee,was ranked as the 19thindividual speaker. They defeatedteams from Michigan State University,the University of WestGeorgia, and Missouri State Universityto reach the final round.Gannon and Lamballe werecoached by Director of DebateRoss Smith (’82) and head debatecoach J.P. Lacy (’95). “These twodebaters are just exceptionallytalented,” Smith said. “They areparticularly gifted at getting tothe heart of a question, and theyare incredibly hard working. Theback-to-back speeches I heardfrom Seth and Alex in the finalround were the best I’ve heardin a very long time.”Smith has qualified moreteams to the elimination roundsthan any other coach in thenation during the past decade.Wake Forest has advanced to thefinal debate two out of the pastthree years and is among a smallnumber of schools that has qualifiedthe most often for the finalrounds. Wake Forest has hadfinal four finishes in 1955, 1993,1994, and 1995.—Cheryl Walker (’88)Wake Forest News ServiceSeth Gannon and Alex LamballeJames Beshara (’08) and professor Sylvain BokoDvelo Fund promotesstudy-abroad opportunitiesFOLLOWING WHAT HE CALLEDa “life-changing”trip to Africalast summer, senior economicsmajor JAMES BESHARA decidedto do something to ensure thatother students have the sameopportunity.With the help of Zachary T.Smith Associate Professor ofEconomics Sylvain Boko, Besharalaunched the Dvelo Fund, a fellowshipprogram for students to studydevelopment issues in the underdevelopedworld.The fellowshipswill be available to undergraduatesto travel to developing countriesto conduct research or to participatein development programs.“My experience was madepossible by a grant from WakeForest,” said Beshara, a native ofDallas, Texas. “Sadly, many universitiesdo not have adequatefunding for study-abroad researchgrants because of the extremeexpense. My hope is that theDvelo Fund will offer studentsthe same opportunity I had, andin turn, they might return fromtheir experience and feel compelledto continue to assist thosewho need it most.”6 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Beshara and Boko raisedmoney to launch the fund(www.dvelofund.org). Boko, anative of Benin, West Africa,annually leads students on summerfield trips to Benin, wherethey study the region’s history,culture, and development issues.After graduating last month,Beshara went to Tanzania to volunteerwith the Nyanya Project, aprogram created by Visiting Instructorof English Mary Martin Niepold.Nyanya volunteers workwith grandmothers raising theirorphaned grandchildren whoseparents died from HIV or AIDS.This month, he was scheduled tobegin working for a microfinancebank in Cape Town, South Africa.Research paper wins tophonors for ChauvenetCHRISTINA CHAUVENET(’08) won first prize in anational competition this springfor having the best paper on anapplied research project in thesocial and behavioral sciences.She received the Peter K. NewStudent Research CompetitionAward from The Society forApplied Anthropology.Chauvenet won the award forher paper, “First Line of Defense:Health Care Agents and ChildhoodCancer in Recife, Brazil.”Working with Professor of AnthropologyJeanne Simonelli, she spentseven weeks in Brazil last summerevaluating the effectivenessof health-care agents in detectingChristina Chauvenetcancer in children inits earliest stages. Herproject was fundedthrough Wake Forest’sPro Humanitate Scholarsprogram.Chauvenet, who isfrom Charleston, West Virginia,majored in political scienceand minored in Latin AmericanStudies. She will be pursuing amaster’s degree in Latin Americanpolitics at the Institute for theStudy of the Americas at theUniversity of London in the fall.Simpson tops amateurgolf rankingsWEBB SIMPSON (’08) endedhis Wake Forest golfingcareer on top of the world. Aweek after winning the individualtitle in a record-breaking performanceat the ACC Championshipin April, he was ranked the numberone amateur in the world inthe Golfweek/Scratch PlayersWorld Amateur Rankings. Thetournament win was his fifth inthe last year.Simpson posted a three-daytotal of 202 (-14) at the ACCChampionship—held at OldNorth State Club in UwharriePoint, North Carolina—breakingthe previous record of 203 set byJohn Engler of Clemson in 2001.He was the first Wake Forestplayer to win the tournamentsince Sean Moore (’07) in 2004.Wake Forest finished fifth in thetournament.Student cartoonistwins national awardWILLIAMC. WARREN(’08), a cartoonist for theOld Gold & Black, won this year’sNational Journalism Award forCollege Cartooning from theScripps HowardFoundation. Hereceived $10,000 andthe Charles M. SchulzAward for his comicstrip, “Lummox,”printed weekly in theOG&B. The comic stripchronicles the adventuresof Lummox andGoodrich, two freshmanroommates.William WarrenWarren began drawing editorialcartoons for the OG&B duringhis freshman year and started“Lummox”in 2006. Last year hewon the John Locher Award fromthe Association of American EditorialCartoonists.To view his work,visit www.warrentoons.com.A native of Atlanta, Warrenmajored in political science witha minor in studio art. After graduating,he joined a Washington,D.C.-area think tank, Americansfor Limited Government, to writeand draw cartoons for the group’spublications.A R O U N D T H E Q U A Dwww.wfu.edu/wowf JUNE 2008 7

History’s Watts awarded Guggenheim FellowshipPROFESSOR OF HISTORYSarah Watts has been awardeda John Simon GuggenheimMemorial Foundation Fellowshipin the category of fine arts research.She is the first faculty member atWake Forest to ever receive theprestigious fellowship.Watts is currently drafting abook manuscript based on researchin which she has assembled 257previously unstudied satiricalpolitical cartoons produced between1897 and 1910 by German ExpressionistLyonel Feininger. Herresearch promises to reorientscholarship on Feininger, as wellas established views about thedevelopment of satirical humor,literature, and art in Germany.“Lyonel Feininger figuresprominently among GermanExpressionists, yet his career asone of Germany’s most prominentpolitical satirists has beenoverlooked, leaving him a sleepinggiant in the cultural history ofBismarck’s Reich,”she said. “Mystudy of Feininger’s cartoons willpresent for the first time worksthat have never been seen togetheror collected in one place. It willanalyze Feininger’s satires withintheir milieu, delineating the possibilitiesand limits of politicalprotest in Imperial Germany ata time when mass media wassuperseding art as a primaryvehicle of visual culture.”In an East Berlin branch ofthe Berlin State Library, Wattsfound a rare book collectionholding a series of Feininger’scartoons that were published inLustige Blätter, one of Germany’smost widely read magazines.Sixty-seven of the 257 cartoonsappeared on the magazine’scover, yet only one significantart-history book has examinedFeininger’s years as a cartoonist.Watts intends to organize thecartoons thematically and placeeach cartoon within the historicalSarah Wattscontext that produced it, providingfresh insights into Feininger’scareer and the culture, politics,and government that he satirized.Guggenheim Fellows areselected on the basis of stellarachievement and exceptionalpromise for continued accomplishment.Watts was among 190scholars, scientists, and artistsselected from the United Statesand Canada.—Eric FrazierWake Forest News ServiceA R O U N D T H E Q U A DBoko, Weinstein win Fulbright fellowshipsZACHARY T. SMITH AssociateProfessor of EconomicsSylvain Boko and Professor ofPolitical Science David Weinsteinhave won fellowships from theFulbright Scholar Program.Boko has won a fellowshipto Uganda for the 2008–2009academic year to teach at theMakerere University Instituteof Social Research in Kampala.He also will conduct researchon “Post-Conflict Reconstructionand Development: The Role ofDecentralized Governance.”Weinstein has received a fellowshipbeginning in April 2009to conduct research and teach atthe Simon Dubnow Institute atLeipzig University in Saxony,Germany. The institute is devotedto the study of Central EuropeanJewish history and culture.Weinstein’s research will focuson Jewish political philosophers,including Karl Popperand Leo Strauss, who wereforced to flee from Germanyand Austria in the 1930s.Sylvain BokoDavid Weinsteinwww.wfu.edu/wowf JUNE 2008 9

A R O U N D T H E Q U A DReinemund appointed dean of business schoolsSTEVE REINEMUND, formerchief executive officer andchairman of PepsiCo, has beennamed dean of the CallowaySchool of Business and Accountancyand the Babcock GraduateSchool of Management. Reinemund,who retired from PepsiCoin 2007, will be the first dean tohead both of the University’sbusiness schools.“I have long admired WakeForest and am deeply honored tohave this opportunity,” said Reinemund,whose appointment wasannounced in April. “This is anexciting time for the University,and I am looking forward to workingwith the faculty to lead theWake Forest business schools intoa new era.”Reinemund, who currentlylives in Dallas, will become deanand professor of leadership andstrategy on July 1.Reinemund spent twentythreeyears at PepsiCo. He wasCEO of the Pizza Hut division,and later CEO of Frito-Lay’sworldwide operations. He waspresident and chief operatingofficer of PepsiCo before beingnamed chairman and CEO in2001. He retired as CEO in 2006and as chairman in 2007.Barron’s magazine named himto its “World’s Most RespectedCEO List”in 2005 and 2006.BusinessWeek magazine namedhim one of the “Top 25 Managers”in 2002 and 2004 and noted thathis “constant innovation andsavvy moves” took PepsiCo toSteve Reinemund is former CEO and chairman of PespiCo.new levels of success, but that his“greatest achievement is in developingpeople.”His efforts to bring diversity toPepsiCo earned him the NationalEqual Justice Award from theNAACP Legal Defense Fund andThe Man Who Did the Most forWomen Award from the NationalCouncil for Research on Women.When he retired, PepsiCo establishedthe Reinemund Diversityand Inclusion Legacy Award torecognize individuals at PepsiCowho foster diversity in the companyand in the community.One of his mentors wasWayne Calloway (’59), a previouschairman and CEO of PepsiCoand the namesake of the CallowaySchool. In 2002, Reinemundand two other PepsiCo executivesgave $500,000 to the CallowaySchool to name the “Four Chairmen’sBridge,” which leads to theschool’s main entrance.A graduate of the U.S. NavalAcademy, Reinemund served fiveyears as an officer in the U.S. MarineCorps. He received a masterof business administrationdegree at the Darden GraduateSchool of Business Administrationat the University of Virginia.Wake Forest announced lastSeptember that the Calloway andBabcock schools would be realignedunder one dean. Deans JackWilkerson of the Calloway Schooland Ajay Patel of the BabcockSchool are returning full-time tothe schools’ faculties.—Kevin Cox (MA ’81)Wake Forest News Service10 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Torti takes leadershipposition at FDADR.FRANK M. TORTI, directorof the ComprehensiveCancer Center at Wake ForestUniversity Baptist Medical Center,has been appointed to the numbertwo position at the U.S. Foodand Drug Administration. Torti,who joined the medical schoolfaculty in 1993, has taken a leaveof absence to become principaldeputy commissioner and thefirst chief scientist of the FDA.As the top deputy to CommissionerAndrew von Eschenbach,he has been charged withimproving the waythe agency conductsfollow-up studies toexamine the safetyof drugs after theyhave gone to market.Torti, who is also chair ofthe medical school’s cancer biologydepartment, specializes ingenitourinary cancers that affectthe prostate, kidney, bladder,and testes, and is a well-knownclinical investigator. Many ofthe clinical trials that he hasdesigned and executed haveFrank Tortiled to improved standards ofcare in genitourinary oncology.“Dr. Torti’s impressive clinicaland scientific credentials are anexcellent match for the work wedo on a daily basis to promoteand protect the nation’s health asa science-based and science-ledagency,” said von Eschenbach.A R O U N D T H E Q U A DInstitute gets federal grant to study treatment of combat injuriesACONSORTIUM LED BY THEInstitute for RegenerativeMedicine at Wake Forest UniversityBaptist Medical Center hasbeen awarded a federal grant of$42.5 million to develop new treatmentsfor wounded soldiers.Wake Forest is teaming withthe McGowan Institute for RegenerativeMedicine at the Universityof Pittsburgh and other academicand industry partners. A secondconsortium, which also receiveda $42.5 million grant from theU.S. Department of Defense, willbe managed by Rutgers and theCleveland Clinic. The two consortiumshave formed the ArmedForces Institute of RegenerativeMedicine.The consortiums will workclosely with the U.S. Army Instituteof Surgical Research to findways to repair battlefield injuriesthrough the use of regenerativemedicine, science that takes advantageof the body’s natural healingpowers to restore or replace damagedtissue and organs.“For the first time in the historyof regenerative medicine, wehave the opportunity to work ata national level to bring transformationaltechnologies to woundedsoldiers, and to do so in partnershipwith the armed services,”saidDr. Anthony Atala, director of theWake Forest Institute for RegenerativeMedicine. “This field ofscience has the potential to significantlyimpact our ability tosuccessfully treat major trauma.”The Wake Forest-led groupwill develop clinical therapies totreat severe burns and heal woundswithout scarring; for craniofacialreconstruction; for limb reconstruction,regeneration, or transplantation;and for compartmentsyndrome, a condition after surgeryor an injury that can lead toimpaired blood flow, nerve damage,and muscle death.The grant will likely bring newscientists and facilities to the WakeForest Institute for RegenerativeMedicine and the Piedmont TriadResearch Park in downtownWinston-Salem.Anthony Atalawww.wfu.edu/wowf JUNE 2008 11

Born happy? Psychology researcher not so sureWHILE ENGLISH PROFESSOREric Wilson reflects on themelancholic disposition and theconnections between such qualitiesof mind and creativity (seestory, page 12), William Fleesonhas been making news as well.In Allure, Self, Fitness, Caring Today,and the American PsychologicalAssociation Monitor on Psychology,he focuses on whether sadness isan inherent part of one’s nature orif people have more control overtheir behavior and emotions thanonce thought.“Personality is often thoughtof as something you’re born with,and it causes you to act a certainway,”said Fleeson, an associateprofessor in psychology and aresearcher in personality. “Theoristswho approach personalityfrom this structural perspectivebelieve a person has a certainway of behaving, and althoughWilliam Fleeson: Students use handheldcomputers to provide research datahe or she may be able to overrideit on occasion, personality is partof nature. I’m not sure that’s true.An alternative approach, one thatI’m interested in, suggests thatpersonality is active and flexible.”Fleeson has been testing theidea that it is possible for peopleto gain some measure of controlover their lives by improvingoutlook and attitude. To studythis theory, groups of students,both introverted and extroverted,have helped.“In one of our labs, we askedsubjects to be either talkative,energetic, assertive, adventurous,and bold, or we asked them to bequiet, passive, and unadventurous,”saidFleeson.“We had subjectsdo a ten-minute discussion,and when they were done withthe discussion we asked themhow much fun they had duringthe experiment. It was a huge difference.Those in the extrovertedcondition could be heard laughingand having a great time. Itdidn’t matter if they were introvertsor extroverts to begin with,acting extroverted made themhave more fun instantly.”There is some misunderstandingof the nature of introvertedand extroverted personalities.Since the days of Carl Jung’sresearch on personality, peopleoften contrast outgoing, extrovertedactivity with introspective,contemplative behavior. “Jungbelieved that extroversion wasdetermined by whether a personis outward or inward looking. Itwas a good theory that turnedout to be wrong,” Fleeson said.“There’s been a lot of researchin the last ten to twenty yearsthat has made it clear that extroversionversus introversion isabout the contrast between beingactive, energetic, adventurous,assertive, and somewhat sociable,versus being quiet, passive,timid, submissive, and somewhatunsociable. A person can climba mountain—a very extrovertedthing to do even if it’s done alone—and can be very introspectivewhile doing that. Introspection isnot part of the distinction betweenextroverted and introverted, andthat’s hard to get over.”Fleeson’s research suggeststhat by taking a walk, talking tosomeone, singing aloud, or dancingto music, it might be possibleto work through feelings of anxietyand sadness. “People who arein better spirits may be morelikely to see the world as a placethat will allow them to do whatthey want, and therefore theyoften accomplish more. That’s apretty positive effect.”—Kim McGrathVisit www.wfu.edu/magazine for moreon Eric Wilson and William Fleeson,including links to articles and bookexcerpts, and a Q & A with AssistantProfessor of Philosophy ChristianMiller, who offers a philosopher’s viewof character traits and behavior.A R O U N D T H E Q U A Dwww.wfu.edu/wowf JUNE 2008 13

A R O U N D T H E Q U A DWhirlwindTeaching, traveling, speaking, learning paint picture of Lubin’s lifeIT’S BEEN A WHIRLWIND YEARfor David Lubin. The CharlotteC. Weber Professor of Art, whoteaches courses on the history ofart, film, and popular culture andis the author of several books, isfrequently invited to speak at universitiesand museums aroundthe country and, in the last year,in Australia, China, Italy, andSpain. “It’s a great way to getWake Forest’s name out in thoseplaces,”he says.He’s quick to emphasize thathe schedules his trips duringbreaks in the academic year or, ifhe must miss a class, he makessure that he reschedules it so thathis students aren’t shortchanged.What he teaches supports hisscholarship, and vice versa. “I’vefound it very effective to teachwhatever it is that I’m currentlyresearching and writing,”he says.“The students feel themselves tobe part of the research, and theybecome caught up in the excitementof intellectual discovery.”This past semester, he drewhis students into his latest project,a book on the imagery ofWorld War I. Students in his seminar,“Artand War,”studied howartists, illustrators, and filmmakersfrom a variety of combatantnations represented World War I.“We immersed ourselves in theperiod: what people were writing,what they were filming, whatthey were drawing,”says Lubin,who began writing the book lastyear during a sabbatical at Harvard’sCharles Warren Center forStudies in American History. “Ilike learning about new subjectsand taking students along for theride. It’s daunting but also thrillingto start off with a blank page andsee what you can map onto it.”Lubin, who taught at ColbyCollege in Maine for sixteen yearsbefore coming to Wake Forest in1999, is the author of the widelyacclaimed Shooting Kennedy: JFKand the Culture of Images (2003),which examines iconic images ofthe Kennedy era; Titanic (1999),which examines issues of classand culture in James Cameron’sblockbuster film; Act of Portrayal:Eakins, Sargent, James (1985); andPicturing a Nation: Art and SocialChange in Nineteenth-CenturyAmerica (1994).In early 2007, he spoke at theNational Museum of China at anexhibit showcasing three hundredyears of American art. (Theexhibit included Albert Bierstadt’sSierra Nevada, loaned from ReynoldaHouse Museum of AmericanArt.) He returned to China lastsummer to lecture on Americanart at universities across thecountry and at the ShanghaiMuseum on a trip sponsored bythe U.S. State Department. Amonth later, he spoke on contemporaryAmerican art and cultureat the National Gallery of VictoriaDavid Lubin: ‘I like learning new subjects.’in Melbourne, Australia, and atthe National Gallery of Australiain Canberra.Over Wake Forest’s winterbreak, he traveled through SouthIndia to learn about Hindu artand architecture. In January, hemoderated a colloquium on contemporaryAmerican art at theGuggenheim Museum in Bilbao,Spain. In February, he spoke onShooting Kennedy at the TexasSchool Book Depository in Dallas.In March, he gave the keynoteaddress at a national conferenceof graduate students at IndianaUniversity, and he spent WakeForest’s spring break at the Universityof Kansas teaching agraduate class that was studyinghis books. And in April, he lecturedon artist Thomas Eakinsin Brescia, Italy.His calendar for 2009 is alreadystarting to fill up: he’s scheduledto speak next winter in Berlin atan exhibition of photorealist artof the 1970s.—Kerry M. King (’85)14 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

ZSR librarian honored for use of technologySUSAN SHARPLESS SMITH,head of information technologyat the Z. Smith Reynolds Library,has been honored by the Associationof College and ResearchLibraries. She received the 2008Instruction Section InnovationAward, given annually to recognizecreativity in library instructionor programming.Smith was recognized for herrole as an “embedded librarian”for a sociology course, “SocialStratification in the Deep South,”taught last summer. The courseincluded a two-week bus tourfrom North Carolina throughSouth Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,Mississippi, Louisiana, and Tennesseeto examine race, class, andgender issues. Smith helped studentscreate blogs, upload photographs,and maintain an interactiveWeb site throughout the trip.Earl Smith, Rubin Professorof American Ethnic Studies andprofessor of sociology, and AssociateProfessor of Sociology AngelaHattery had taught the coursetwice before and said Smith’sSusan Smithpresence made a pronounceddifference. “The course was tentimes better with the technologicalinput from Susan,”Hatterysaid. “She was able to designtechnology that allowed us toimplement course goals that areoften difficult in a travel course.”A R O U N D T H E Q U A DHearn’s Commencement speeches in new bookTHE COMMENCEMENTspeeches delivered by formerPresident Thomas K. Hearn, Jr.,have been compiled in a newbook, On this day of endings andbeginnings. The title of the bookcame from one of his speeches.The book contains the full text ofeach of his Commencementaddresses, from 1984 — “The University’sSesquicentennial Year:My Freshman Year”— through2005—“T.K. Says Goodbye”—aswell as historical photographs.“Once a year,Tom Hearn spokein a deeply personal way to anaudience like no other: membersof a graduating class,” ProvostEmeritus Edwin G. Wilson (’43)wrote in the book’s introduction.“And the mood was different.And Tom understood that mood.He knew that for this preciousmoment something more wasneeded: something idealistic,something that transcended theoccasion, something that camefrom the heart. And so he allowedhimself to be Tom Hearn the manrather than just Tom Hearn thepresident.”Hearn’s first Commencementspeeches were on campus events,such as the loss of the diseasedQuad elm trees in 1987, or worldevents, such as the fall of theBerlin Wall, the Persian Gulf War,and 9/11. But the speeches grewincreasingly personal in lateryears as he spoke movingly aboutthe lives of his mother, father,and a favorite uncle; of the deathsof four undergraduates in 1996;and of his own health scares followingheart surgery in 1995 andbrain surgery in 2003.“I discovered that the more Iwas able to convey my heart—aswell as my head—the better ableI was to connect with my audience,”Hearn wrote in the prefaceto the book. “Although the subjectshave ranged widely, I alwaystook as my overall theme ProHumanitate, the Wake Forestmotto.” Hearn ended each speechwith a “charge to the graduates”to live lives of service.Hearn, who retired in 2005,lives in Winston-Salem with hiswife, Laura. The book is availablefor $20 in the College Bookstoreon campus and at the Hanes MallDeacon Shop, or by calling (336)758-5145. Profits will go to theLouise Patton Hearn Scholarship.www.wfu.edu/wowf JUNE 2008 15

A R O U N D T H E Q U A DMatthews namedassociate provost for ISASSOCIATE PROVOST ANDPROFESSOR OF PHYSICSRICK MATTHEWS has beenappointed associate provost forinformation systems. Matthewsjoined the physics departmentin 1979 from the Naval ResearchLaboratory and served as departmentchair from 1998 until 2007,when he joined the Provost’sOffice. He will oversee the University’sInformation Systemsdepartment in his new position.Angelou celebrates80th birthdayREYNOLDS PROFESSOR OFAMERICAN STUDIES MAYAANGELOU was profiled in USAToday in April onher 80th birthday.“I’m not a writerwho teaches. I’ma teacher whowrites,”she saidin the story. “ButI had to workat Wake Forestto know that.”AngelouAngelou, who hastaught at WakeForest since 1970, is the author oftwelve best-selling books includingI Know Why the Caged BirdSings and Wouldn’t Take Nothing forMy Journey Now. Two longtimefriends and her niece recentlypublished a book on her life,Maya Angelou: A Glorious Celebration.Thecity of Winston-Salemthrew a birthday party for herin April.SimonelliSimonelli book studiesNavajo customsPROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOL-OGY JEANNE SIMONELLI’Srecent book, Crossing BetweenWorlds: The Navajo of Canyon deChelly, is a newly revised editionco-authored with her Navajo colleagueLupita McClanahan. Thecollaborative effort offers a pictureof the customs of the Navajowho live in the Canyon de Chellyas they struggle to maintain theirtraditional ways of life in themidst of archaeologists, U.S. ParkService employees, and theincreasing numbers of touristswho come to visit northeasternArizona. The ethnography spansmore than fifteen years of bothtradition and change.Catanoso publishesspiritual memoirJUSTIN CATANOSO (MALS ’93),a journalism instructor in theEnglish department and the executiveeditor of the Business Journalin Greensboro, North Carolina,recently published My Cousin theSaint: A Search for Faith, Family, andMiracles. The book is a spiritualmemoir documenting Catanoso’spersonal journey that began afterhis brother, Alan, died from braincancer in 2004. After discoveringthat he is related to Saint PadreGaetano, canonized in 2005,Catanoso begangathering detailsof the saint, whowas his grandfather’scousin,and of his ownfamily. Thesearch eventuallyleads him toItaly, where heis reunited with Catanosorelatives in hisancestral home and where hecomes to terms with his heritageand faith.History professor’sbook honoredF ACULTYABOOK CO-AUTHORED BYPROFESSOR OF HISTORYANTHONY S. PARENT, JR., hasbeen nominated for the annualLibrary of Virginia Literary16 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

B RIEFSAwards. Parent,who joined thefaculty in 1989, wasone of four coauthorsof OldDominion, NewCommonwealth: AHistory of Virginia,Parent1607–2007, publishedlast year. Hewrote the book’s first three chapterson the natural history andearliest inhabitants of the region.His previous book, Foul Means:The Formation of a Slave Society inVirginia, 1660–1740 (2003), wasnominated for the same award.Biologist quotedon cloud forestsASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OFBIOLOGY MILES SILMANwas interviewed for an articleon the cloud forests of the PeruvianAndes in the March issueof Condé Nast Traveler onConcierge.com. Author JimRobbins quotes Silman andwrites: “Mountaintop forestsare some of the most biologicallydiverse—and most endangered—placeson the earth,and Silman’s research isamong the most ambitiousand best funded in theworld.” Silman joined thefaculty in 1998.Business professorshonoredPAT H. DICKSON AND STANMANDEL have been namedJustin G. Longenecker Fellows for2008 by the U.S. Association forSmall Business and Entrepreneurship.Dickson is an associate professorof strategy and entrepreneurshipat the Calloway Schoolof Business and Accountancy.Mandel is executive professor ofentrepreneurship at the BabcockGraduate School of Managementand director of the Angell Centerfor Entrepreneurship. The fellowsaward honors individuals for extraordinarycontributions in scholarship,teaching, and research inentrepreneurship.Divinity professorreceives research grantKEVIN JUNG, assistant professorof Christian ethics atthe Divinity School, has receiveda Theological Scholars Grantfrom the Association of TheologicalSchools and Lilly Endowment.He willuse the grant,valued at upto $12,000, tosupport hisproject, “MoralLimits to SocialPractice: Historicism and theProblem of Common Morality.”His research will delve into theappropriateness of social practiceas a primary basis of morality;some of the sources of commonmorality he will examine aretruth, empirical facts, and historicaljustification. “Christian ethicsshould insist on setting morallimits to social practice, whilebeing committed to the idea of acommon morality,”he says.Law professor’sarticle citedAN ARTICLE WRITTEN BYPROFESSOR OF LAW ALANPALMITER has been recognizedas one of the “ten best”securitieslaw articles of 2007 by SecuritiesLaw Review, a publication of WestGroup. Thequarterly journalreprints theyear’s top scholarlyarticles inthe field, basedon a poll of lawprofessors whosurvey hundredsof corporateand securi-Palmiterties articles. The article, “MutualFund Boards: A Failed Experimentin Regulatory Outsourcing,”was selected from morethan 400 articles.A R O U N D T H E Q U A DJungwww.wfu.edu/wowf JUNE 2008 17

A R O U N D T H E Q U A DProfessor Emeritus Julian Burroughs diesCommunication professor led the growth of WFDDand introduced the film studies curriculumTHE “FATHER” OF MODERNday WFDD and film studiespioneer Julian C. Burroughs ('51)died May 7 in Winston-Salem.Burroughs, who was 80, joinedthe faculty in 1958 as an instructorin speech and taught classesin radio, television, and film untilretiring in 1994.But it was at WFDD, celebratingits 60th anniversary this year,where he left his most lastinglegacy. He served as station managerfrom 1958—the first “professional,”non-student to mangethe station—until 1981 and ledthe station’s growth into a chartermember of National Public Radio.A studio at the station was namedin his honor in March.“When most people think ofJulian, they will remember theunparalleled importance of hiscontributions to Wake Forest,”said Provost Emeritus Edwin G.Wilson (’43). “It’s fair to say thatfor many of the years since WFDDstarted and until his retirement,he was the one who gave it thetone and quality that we havecome to expect from WFFD.”Burroughs was also the onewho brought film studies—thenin its infancy—to Wake Forest in1968. After taking film courses atthe University of Southern California,he taught WakeForest’s first film class,“Introduction to Film”and bought a 16mmhand-held Bell &Howell movie cameraso students could createtheir own films.“He was the firstperson to teach coursesin film before collegesplaced a greatemphasis on film,”Wilson noted. “Hewas a very importantfigure in leadingthe communicationdepartment to includean emphasis on radio and televisionand film.”Hundreds of students learnedthe elements of broadcastingfrom Burroughs in the classroom,on film sets, and in WFDD’s studio,and many continued on tocareers in broadcasting and journalism.He was also instrumentalin promoting serious films oncampus and helped promote theCollege Union’s film series in the1960s and ’70s. He also producednumerous radio, television, film,and video productions on his ownand with students.Associate Professor of CommunicationMary Dalton (’83)worked for Burroughs at WFDDwhile she was a student and nowteaches two of the courses thatshe once took from him — “Introductionto Film”and “Film Theoryand Criticism.” She creditshim with instilling in her a loveof film—as he did for countlessother students. “He once told methat teaching is sharing, and heshared his love of film with students,”she said.Burroughs grew up in Rockingham,North Carolina, and servedin the U.S. Army before enrollingat Wake Forest in 1948. An Englishmajor, he was student stationmanager of WFDD in 1950–1951.Julian Burroughs (’51) had more time to pursuehis interest in painting after he retired in 1994.18 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

After earning his master’s anddoctorate degrees in radio, television,and theatre at the Universityof Michigan, he returned to WakeForest in 1958.WFDD had been founded asWAKE radio ten years earlier andwas still broadcasting only oncampus. In 1961, three years afterBurroughs had been named stationmanager, the station securedits FM license from the FCC tobroadcast classical music andeducational programs over-theairin Winston-Salem. In 1967,WFDD became the first FMstereo station in Winston-Salem.And in 1971, WFDD became acharter member of National PublicRadio and the first NPR affiliatestation in North Carolina.Burroughs is survived by hiswife, Jean; daughter CatherineBurroughs (’80) and her husband,Fredric Bogel, and their sonNicholas Bogel-Burroughs; anddaughter Lee Bradway (’83) andher husband, Scott Bradway (’83),and their children, Parker, a freshmanat Wake Forest, and Brooks.Memorials may be made tothe Kate B. Reynolds HospiceHome, WFDD, or the Fine ArtsMinistry at Centenary MethodistChurch.— Kerry M. King (’85)A R O U N D T H E Q U A DUp a creek with a paddleFROM SUMMER 1983 TO FALL 1988, I served asDirector of Periodicals at Tulane University in NewOrleans, Louisiana. Having lived, studied, and workedin the Upper Midwest all my life, my early impressionof the city was terra incognita—definitely downriverfrom Minnesota and Iowa. But I quickly acclimated toits quirks, idiosyncrasies, and contrasts and came toappreciate and enjoy, if not fully embrace, its one-of-a-kind culture.Our house was six blocks from campus, at the cusp between the Uptownand Broadmoor neighborhoods on the slope from the high ground huggingthe Mississippi River levee to the bowl of the city twelve feet belowsea level. Once or twice, when the surly clouds of summer disgorged sufficientprecipitation to overtax the massive pumps that safeguard thebowl, storm water invaded our downstairs den. But we accepted it as partof the deal; a cost of doing business in the Big Easy. You made your repairsand moved on.Watching the televised scenes of a floodwater invasion of a differentorder two decades later was nothing short of an out-of-body experience.Aghast yet oddly detached, I could not conjure any hope for the recoveryof the city in the aftermath of Katrina. My fatalism was further cementedsix months later when my daughter sent me photographs showing a waterline several feet up our abandoned former house and symbols scrawledon the front door signifying that no corpses had been found inside.So when I was assigned this spring to return, with University PhotographerKen Bennett, to New Orleans for the first time in a decade to preparea series of stories on Wake Forest alumni and students who were affectedby the storm or are active in the recovery effort, I was apprehensive.Would it be irreversibly altered—or, worse, unalterably changed?I should have remembered that even when everything changes in NewOrleans, nothing changes. Uptown, which had avoided the worst of the flooding,looked and felt just as it had twenty years before. Even neighborhoodswhere whole blocks remain largely vacant exuded a dogged determination.To New Orleanians, this place is home and no place else will do. Hurricanesand floods are part of the deal.You make your repairs and move on.So I kept the pathos in my peripheral vision and trained my straightawaysight squarely on the positive. It’s amazing what you can find whenyou look for it. At every turn there were hopeful stories; inspiring stories.Even our former house had a happy fate: it’s been renovated and put onthe market.Starting on page 20 you’ll find extensive coverage of what now mightbe called the “City that Care Remembered”under the umbrella title of“Against the Wind.” With its concave hull, low draft, and leaky gunnels,New Orleans is a fragile boat that’s downwind as well as downriver. But itdoes have a paddle: the will to survive. And that just might be enough forits jolly crew to row it to a snug harbor.David FytenSenior Writerwww.wfu.edu/wowf JUNE 2008 19

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INDSix degrees of unificationWe are Wake Forest. And we are New Orleans.Stories by David FytenPHOTO BY TED JACKSON / THE TIMES-PICAYUNEWHEN JOHN WHITE OF NEWORLEANS VISITED Winston-Salem in 1991,he was introduced to the woman he wouldmarry—Amy Baldwin (’91)— by his hometown friend, RichardCurrence (’89), younger son of Dick (’61) and Becky McDonald(’61) Currence.When Bill Marks (’66)—who had graduated from Wake Forestwith Amy’s parents, Woody (’66) and Joy Brumbaugh (’66) Baldwin,and whose own son, Bo (’91), was a classmate of Amy—came toNew Orleans in 1990 to head one of the city’s leading banks, BeckyCurrence, noting his college affiliation in a newspaper articleannouncing his appointment, called to welcome him.When Bob Johnson (’69), then general manager of the LouisianaSuperdome, attended an alumni reception in New Orleans sometimein the early nineties, Becky went out of her way to introduceherself. When a group of Wake Forest students spent their springbreak this March volunteering in New Orleans, the Currences treatedthem to dinner. And when Becky discovered that a minister andrelative newcomer to the city named Ray Cannata (’90) was shepherdinga flock of rebuilding projects, she resolved to meet him andlearn more about his mission.JUNE 2008 21

PHOTO BY CHUCK COOK / THE TIMES-PICAYUNENearly every Friday thatthey’re around, Kit Rothand John Monlezun have aninformal cocktail party onthe driveway next to wheretheir home stood on LakeshoreDrive in Mandevillebefore Hurricane Katrina.The house had to be demolishedand the lot is overgrownwith weeds. Nextdoor, a new, raised house isalmost finished.College affiliation can be a potentadhesive, especially when it is appliedby an inveterate networker who isas devoted to her alma mater as BeckyCurrence is. But in “post-K” NewOrleans, as its denizens today delineatetime after Katrina, perhaps onlyfood and music bond its people asimmutably as survivorship. Becky’ssense of kinship with her fellow NewOrleans alumni today surely stems asmuch from having shared an ordeal asit does from having shared a college.For that matter, can anyone whoendured the deluge feel anything butfraternity with perfect strangers inGentilly, Lakeview, Mid-City, Broadmoor,and the Lower Ninth Ward?Combined, Katrina and its littlesister, Rita, constituted the costliestnatural disaster in U.S. history by far,causing $150 billion in damage. Asgrim as its images were, televisionsimply could not adequately conveythe misery and desperation the stormswrought a month apart in late summerand early fall 2005.The worst was visible after thevile swill that submerged 80 percentof the city receded. Its once-lush andverdant landscape had withered andbrowned, as if caught on film in sepiatone. Its venerable live oaks, whichhad somehow survived the brackishonslaught that wiped out the magnoliasand other varieties, had beenstripped at their tops by the winds,permitting harsh sunlight to penetratepreviously virgin shade. Crackedmud caked everything from boulevardsto bedrooms. Mangled structuresslumped piggyback on cars.Uprooted trees wove crowns and garlands.A river barge rested in a backyard.Public safety personnel wentabout their macabre task of searchinghouses for corpses (they would findclose to 1,500) as troops battled toquash the rampant pillaging andshootings.Out of a pre-K population of434,000, only 158,000 still livedin Orleans Parish in January 2006.Of those that remained, many werecrammed into the 81,000 FEMAtrailers that sprouted like fungusfrom the sodden soil and that wouldcome to be as reviled as their namesake:the Federal EmergencyManagement Agency.Approximately 800,000 people inthe seven-parish metropolitan areawere forced to relocate to far-flunglocales in America’s greatest diasporasince the Dust Bowl days of the GreatDepression. An outsider can scarcelyimagine the emotional damage anexodus of this magnitude would wreakon a city in which almost 80 percentof its habitants had been born andraised. Left behind to be disposed ofwas some 40 million tons of trash—22 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

thirty-four years’ worth of normalwaste generation—including 1.5million “white goods” appliances and350,000 vehicles.Happily, television still fails to dothe city justice—only now, to its persistentrecovery. Although most ofthe Ninth Ward is eerily empty, withblock after block of bulldozed lots,and whole neighborhoods in Lakeviewand Gentilly remain dotted with theshells of gutted dwellings, the Big Easytoday has a detectable twinkle in itseye and liveliness in its step. In theBroadmoor neighborhood, the bowl ofthe concave city in which twelve feetand more of floodwater had collected,“piles of progress”— rubble from renovationwork—await pickup. Muckis no more, brown has morphed togreen, and people have returned home,raising the population to over 70 percentof pre-K levels in the city proper.Especially heartening has been theinflux of twenty-somethings from allover the nation who had come to volunteer,became infatuated with thecity, and returned to make it theirhome and be part of the rebuilding.New Orleanians even have a namefor them: YURPs (for Young UrbanRecovery Professionals).If perception is everything, then itis especially so in New Orleans, a farragoof fantasy and contrasts. Whereassome look at New Orleans and see onlycrime, hedonism, and impoverishment,others perceive determination, compassion,and collaboration—the kinderfacets of human nature. Its inhabitantswatched the good times roll away withthe wind and they are bound anddetermined to roll them back.Each reopening of a beloved restaurantthat had been flooded—Mandina’s,Commander’s Palace, the CamelliaGrill, Dooky Chase’s—has been causefor celebration, not only because NewOrleans adores food like no place else,but also because each one has symbolicallyrepresented a new high watermark in the healing process. Its publicschool system, the worst in the countrybefore being washed away by theflooding, has been supplanted by thepromise of the charter school system.A seminal spirit of community, cooperation,and grass roots activism is pervadingthe city as palpably as its infamoushumidity in summer’s high heat.Still, sober heads elsewhere wonderwhether New Orleans can or evenshould be rebuilt and protected. Alreadyas much as seventeen feet below sealevel, the city is sinking by as much asan inch a year. Since 1932, Louisianahas lost some 2,000 square miles ofcoastal lands—the seventh largesteroding wetland in the world, biggerthan the entire state of Delaware—and the loss rate is quickening. Globalwarming is melting polar ice fasterthan at any time since the end of thelast ice age, and ocean levels could riseby as much as twenty feet over thenext century. And warming seas willbe incubators and energizers of morefrequent and violent storms. As BobDylan wrote, you don’t need a weathermanto know which way the windis blowing.PHOTO BY AMANDA MCCOY / THE TIMES-PICAYUNEA line stretches out to thesidewalk as people waitanxiously for the doorsto open at Camellia Grillon Saturday, April 21,2007. Doors opened at 8o’clock to let patrons infor the first time sinceHurricane Katrina.JUNE 2008 23

PHOTO BY ELLIS LUCIA / THE TIMES-PICAYUNEWaitress Tiffany Manchester(right) takes orders from atable full of customers.Mandina’s, the Mid-Cityneighborhood restaurant at3800 Canal St., opened itsdoors to the public Wednesday,February 7, 2007, forthe first time since beingflooded by HurricaneKatrina more than 17months earlier.Although the city’s defenses havebeen buttressed since Katrina, theyare still unlikely to withstand anotherCategory 3 storm. It would take decadesand an incalculable financial investmentto protect it from Category 4 or 5 hurricanes,of which the probability willonly increase as climatological conditionschange. Can distanced observersbe faulted for advocating such radicaland previously unthinkable solutionsas abandoning one of America’s mosthistoric and loved cities?To New Orleanians, the glass isalways half full at least, and to themthe only true impediment to full recoveryis the indifference or downrighthostility of the naysayers and doomsdayers.And there is this to consider:if we are hostile or indifferent toNew Orleans’ plight, are we so at ourcollective peril? Half or more of thecountry’s population lives on or closeto its coasts and is therefore vulnerableto the very hazards Louisianaconfronts. Even those who live awayfrom the oceans and gulf are notout of harm’s way entirely. In Januaryof 2007, the U.S. Army Corps ofEngineers listed 146 inland levees,from Washington to Pennsylvaniaand Arkansas to New York, that areseriously flawed. By turning our backsto the predicament of New Orleans,are we denying that it is ours as well?Whatever side you take in theBattle of New Orleans, we hope youwill find inspiration in the followingsix stories about the lives and workof Becky, Bill, Bob, Amy, Ray, and thestudent volunteers, and trust that youwill bond with them. We are WakeForest, after all.And we are New Orleans.KEN BENNETT24 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

KEN BENNETTRebecca M. Currence (’61)Woman of the stormAn alumna and her sisterhood strive tosave a city, state—and, by extension, anation—with a simple expression offaith: if they come, they will build it.Rebecca Currence: a desperate urgency and sense of responsibilityto help rebuild and protect her beloved adopted city.N A MONDAYOMORNING in March inUptown New Orleans a block fromthe St. Charles Avenue streetcar line,the parlor of Anne Milling’s upscalehome is a contrapuntal cacophonyof competing conversations and telephonecalls. The board of Women ofthe Storm, a grass roots organizationdedicated to keeping the cause of acrippled city and imperiled coastlinesquarely before the nation’s consciousness,is meeting in its customary style.There is a lot to do—postcards tomail, congressmen to call, platformcommittees to contact, conventiontrips to plan, press conferences toattend, networking to be done—andthe weight of time is heavy; sometimes,protocol and decorum must besacrificed to get it all done. Somehow,order emerges from the chaos andplans for another week of work tosave south Louisiana are in place.Every hurricane has its eye, and thecalm at the center of this storm is aproper Uptown woman named RebeccaMcDonald Currence (’61). Becky, aseveryone calls her, is a bedrock of thegroup’s board, quick to volunteer if acongressman needs calling or a pressconference needs attending on shortnotice. And small wonder. Everythingelse in her life except family, itseems, falls in line behind the desperateurgency and sense of unavoidableresponsibility she feels to help rebuild,restore, and secure her beloved adoptedcity and state.“I’ll never forget the first time I sawthe Lower Ninth Ward after Katrina,”she says while driving, on a gloriousspring day, through what was once avibrant working-class neighborhoodbut is now a wasteland intermittentlypunctuated with pockets of newconstruction, such as the MusiciansVillage project funded by HarryConnick, Jr., and Branford Marsalis,and a prototype of actor Brad Pitt’sambitious Make It Right project tobuild 150 new houses in the area.“It was like a war zone,” she continues.“It took your breath away. AllI could do was weep. I knew at thatmoment that I had to get involved.”Becky, who grew up in Lenoir, NorthCarolina, moved to New Orleans inthe sixties when husband Dick (’61),whom she had met and fallen in loveJUNE 2008 25

PHOTO BY JENNIFER ZDON / THE TIMES-PICAYUNEOn the first day of theAtlantic hurricane season,Women of the Stormand America’s WetlandCampaign to SaveCoastal Louisianalaunch Storm WarningII, a series of events inNew Orleans to dramatizethe increased dangercaused by the loss ofLouisiana’s coastal wetlands.At Tad GormleyStadium Thursday, June1, 2006, Women of theStorm stand on differentU.S. states painted onthe field to illustrate thenumber of members ofCongress who have notvisited New Orleanspost-Katrina.with at Wake Forest, enrolled in lawschool at Tulane. The city became theirhome for good when he pursued businessopportunities in the oil and gasindustry, and over the years, they becameparagons of genteel Uptown affluence.Their life, like that of every otherNew Orleanian, was uprooted violentlythe weekend of August 27, 2005. Theyhad never evacuated in previous hurricanewarnings, but the approach of amonster Category 5 storm brewing inthe Gulf of Mexico mandated a hastyescape. “I awoke at three a.m. [on Sunday,August 28], and started e-mailingfamily and close friends that we wereon our way out of harm’s way,” Beckyrecalls. “There were many I was unableto contact before we got out of the cityahead of the growing traffic.”Becky and Dick drove to son John’shouse in Oxford, Mississippi, thehowling fury of Hurricane Katrina attheir heels. There they stayed for nearlysix weeks as the grim drama athome played out. “We were paralyzedemotionally,” she says. “The three ofus clung together for strength andlooked for answers as to how to dealwith our beloved city.”Dick and Becky returned home inlate October. “The post-storm landscapeis still hard for me to visualizeand understand,” Becky says. “Perhapsit is a gift of the human mind thathorrors subside in the memory as timepasses. Very few women were in thecity. No children. No sounds of birds—they had been blown away by thestorm. I was reminded of the film Onthe Beach [about the after-effects ofnuclear war].”Fortunately, their home stoodon relatively high ground near theMississippi River levee and wasspared flooding. They immediatelywent to work doing what they couldto help others. In sequence theywould take three persons needinglodging into their guesthouse. Thefirst was a longshoreman whom Dickmet on the street. He and his familyhad lost their home in St. BernardParish and evacuated to Texas; hewas back because he had a job butno place to live. The second wasan acquaintance of son John whomoved to the city from Kentuckyto help with the recovery by servingin the food industry without compensation.The third, who still liveswith them, is a Nicaraguan businessowner who was forced from hisFEMA trailer and has yet to receivehis federal grant money to repair hisflooded property.26 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

But Becky’s greatest opportunity tohelp would emerge from the Thanksgivingdinner that her good friend,Anne Milling, and her husband, King(Bill Marks’ banking partner), hostedfor couples that had been displacedfrom their homes. Over dinner, theguests bemoaned the fact that veryfew members of Congress and othersin positions of power and influencehad visited the city in the wake of thecalamity. Anne resolved to do somethingabout it. In ensuing weeks shecirculated among friends the notion ofestablishing an organization dedicatedto inviting all members of Congress,and others who set the national agenda,to visit New Orleans and coastalLouisiana to see first-hand the damagewrought, the challenges faced, thesigns of progress, and how the recoveryof Louisiana, which supplies 30percent of America’s seafood and onethirdof its oil and gas production,affects the entire country. Becky wasone of those friends and was one offourteen charter board members introducedat the founding of Women ofthe Storm (WOS) in January 2006.They wasted no time. Three weeksafter the announcement, 130 womenand accompanying media representativesboarded a charter flight forWashington. Working in tandem, thewomen walked around Capitol Hillhand-delivering invitations to senatorsand key representatives to visit thecity. During a news conference, theyheld aloft blue umbrellas symbolizingthe blue tarps that had covered manyNew Orleans homes after the storm.Within a few weeks of the WOS trip,a delegation of thirty-six U.S. representativescame to New Orleans. Eachsubsequently became an advocate forLouisiana’s recovery.So successful was the trip thatWOS repeated it in September 2006—this time with the added message ofsaving Louisiana’s vanishing coastline.The state’s coastal wetlands, sliced bycanals dredged by oil and gas companiesand walled off by levees from thereplenishing silt of the flooding MississippiRiver, have been eroding at anescalating rate for over half a century.‘It was likea war zone.It took yourbreath away.All I could dowas weep.I knew at thatmoment thatI had to getinvolved.’The 2005 hurricanes wiped out over200 square miles of marshland, and atract of coastal wetlands equivalent insize to a football field disappears everythirty-eight minutes. The restorationand protection of Louisiana’s coast nowshares, with the rebuilding of NewOrleans, the top spot in the WOS agenda.As of March 1, fifty-seven senatorsand 132 U.S. representatives from fortyninestates had visited Louisiana, thanksmostly to WOS efforts. Last spring, Congressappropriated more money forLouisiana’s Road Home program, whichprovides uninsured homeowners in thecity with money to rebuild, and passedthe first-ever bill giving Louisiana aportion of federal royalty revenue fromleases for new oil and gas drilling offthe Louisiana coast to be dedicated tocoastal restoration. The WOS messageis one of urgency; experts predict thatif nothing is done, erosion will be irreversiblewithin ten years and the Gulfof Mexico could be lapping at NewOrleans levees within fifty.As of March, WOS’s plans for 2008included some form of activity duringthe North American Summit of leadersfrom Canada, Mexico, and the U.S.,held in New Orleans in April; travel tothis summer’s Republican and Democraticnational conventions, wherethey will communicate the message ofrecovery to delegates, platform committees,and candidate representatives;participation in the “Our Habitat, OurFuture” symposium in the Big Easy, towhich the 300 members of the CongressionalSportsmen’s Caucus havebeen invited; and the preparation of10,000 postcards for volunteers whocome to the city to send, on theirreturn, to their home-state Congressionaldelegations encouraging visits.Becky, whose speaking engagementson behalf of the cause haveranged from Japanese journalists andwomen leaders from West Africa tovarious service organizations and agroup of international scientists studyingrice production, points to politicalgains at home as well. “We have ayoung, reform-minded governor whois moving the legislature in a newdirection,” says Becky, who majored inpolitical science at Wake Forest.“Citizens’ groups have forced thereform of the [city’s] levee oversightsystem, which will reduce patronageand provide a more effective maintenanceprocedure.“The crisis is not isolated to Louisiana,”she asserts. “No official at anylevel of government was prepared todeal with the magnitude of destructioncaused by Hurricane Katrina. Lack ofeffective communication and responsesystems is a recipe for chaos. More thananything, we need a unified nationalpolicy to deal with events such as this.”JUNE 2008 27

PHOTO BY TED JACKSON / THE TIMES-PICAYUNEShannon Richard pulls awagon of a few oil paintingsfrom her home on GeneralHaig. “There’s not muchworth saving,” she said aftergoing through her floodedhome in Lakeview with herhusband Scott, right, andher father, Randi Reboul.Amy Baldwin White (’91)Crystals from the muckFrom total loss, one can learn what mattersand what matters not.When AmyBALDWIN WHITE (’91)finally worked up the resolve to visither abandoned home in the Lakeviewneighborhood of New Orleans amonth after it had been inundated,she was accompanied by her husband,John, her daughter, Summers, anda young man who was a friend ofthe family. Lake Pontchartrain waterthat had poured through a break inthe 17th Street Canal levee on Monday,August 29, 2005, had reachedthe ceiling of their one-story house,and a gooey stew of foul muck stillcovered the floor and everything theWhites had owned except a few itemsthey had taken with them in theirevacuation the day before the deluge.Somewhere in the slime were some ofAmy’s most precious possessions—herwedding album and the christeninggowns that had adorned the infants inJohn’s family at their baptisms goingback for decades. Amy hunted fornon-porous items of value; to salvageher china, she had to use a prybar toopen the cabinet that contained them.Summers, who was eight at thetime, asked whether the water hadentered her room. Of course, dear,Amy replied, and opened the door tolook in. The scene was the same. Thelittle girl wondered where the crystalsthat she kept in her closet—the onesthat had been Amy’s as a child and thatAmy’s folks had given to Summers—might be and if they could be found.No sooner had Amy expressed herdoubts than their young companionbegan digging in the muck with hishands. Soon he was pulling crystalsfrom the putrescence and passingthem to a delighted child.Somehow, the story seems metaphoricalof the many moments of beautyand joy that the Whites and so manyother families in the New Orleans areahave managed to extract from theirhorror and misery. Amy’s ordeal—not only on a personal level, but alsoprofessionally, at her place of employment,Metairie Park Country DaySchool, which also was flooded—wasdifficult, no question. But the recentdeath of her best friend in college hastaught her added lessons of what istruly of value. Sometimes, what wethink matters, matters not.28 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Amy grew up in Durham, NorthCarolina, in a Wake Forest family.Her dad, Woody Baldwin (’66), playedfootball for the Demon Deacons withBrian Piccolo, and he married hissweetheart at Wake Forest, Joy Brumbaugh(’66). Amy’s sister, Kate BaldwinHoyle (’94), and her husband, Wilson(’89), who was a star kicker on thefootball team, also are alumni.Amy graduated as a mathematicsmajor and was teaching in Kernersvillein fall 1991 when she was lined up byRichard Currence (’89)—who at thetime was dating her close friend andclassmate, Molly Lane (’91)—for a blind date with his bestfriend, John White, who wasvisiting from their hometown ofNew Orleans. It was magic. Thefollowing year, Amy moved toNew Orleans to be closer toJohn and accepted a teachingpost at Metairie Park CountryDay, a private school in theupscale Old Metairie areaadjoining New Orleans. Thecouple married in 1994.In 1999 John and Amy settledin Lakeview, a mostly white middleclass area hard against the southernshore of Lake Pontchartrain. Theirhouse was in a neighborhood nestledbetween the 17th Street Canal, whichdrains rainwater from the below-sealevelterrain, and City Park, the sixthlargesturban park in America. Withtwo small children, two stable incomes(Amy had moved into the admissionsdirectorship at Country Day in 2003),and second properties in Mississippiand Texas, they were living the goodlife in summer 2005.Unlike most of the Big Easy, theWhites always evacuated the city duringthe sporadic warnings of advancinghurricanes that teased, sometimespromised, but never fully consummatedKEN BENNETTa liaison. In each evacuation, Amyalways made sure to take along irreplaceabletreasures—artworks, books,and especially her wedding albumand the children’s christening gowns.On Friday, August 26, 2005,Summers stayed behind in the citywhile the rest of the family went totheir Mississippi house; John’s motherwas to drive her up Saturday morning.But a monster hurricane that filled theGulf of Mexico was gaining fury andlurching toward the Louisiana coast,and it was starting to look like it couldbe…would be…The Big One. By theAmy White: ‘In my soul and heart, I’m positive.’time the New Orleans Saints’ preseasongame in the Superdome had endedthat evening, the storm was a killerCategory 5, the most violent of hurricanesof which, in recorded history,fewer than half a dozen had ever madelandfall in the United States. The followingday, over a million peoplewould be forcibly evacuated from themetropolitan area.After hurricane proofing their propertyin Mississippi Saturday morning,the Whites returned home to rendezvouswith Summers and her grandmotherand prepare to leave. As theyexited their home at 2 a.m., Sundayand headed to their overflowing vehicle,Amy chose to leave behind thewedding album and gowns. “I didn’tthink we had enough room for them,”she says ruefully. “Even today, I think ofit and ask myself, ‘Why did I do that?’”By the time Hurricane Katrinamade landfall just before daylight onMonday, it had diminished to a Category3. But it still flashed sufficientteeth to gobble miles of preciouswetland and barrel up the infamousMississippi River Gulf Outlet into thelake, where the resultant storm surgeput intolerable stress on levees andfloodgates that would subsequentlybe judged substandard in their designand construction. After several dikesin various parts of the cityfailed, lake water cascadedin, hell-bent to fill the bowlof the city to its own level.By then the Whites werewith friends in the ToledoBend recreation area on theTexas-Louisiana border. Theystayed there for a week, witnessingthe first shockingimages of the holocaust ontelevision before drivingdown to Baton Rouge, thestate capital situated seventyfivemiles upriver from New Orleans.“It was hell,” Amy says of BatonRouge, to which much of the CrescentCity had migrated in Katrina’s immediateaftermath. “Everything was inshort supply, long lines were everywhere,and houses were selling foroutrageous prices on the spot. Johnwanted to buy a house in Baton Rouge,but every time I would go inside ofone to have a look, I’d start crying.We thought we had a place to rent,only to have the owners renege on usbecause they could get more fromsomeone else. Everybody was gouging.It was crazy; unbelievable.”The Country Day school campushad been flooded as well; more thana foot of water had invaded half of itsJUNE 2008 29

uildings, including its library andgym. The response of school officialswas swift and forceful. Within twoweeks, they established satellite officesin Dallas, Houston, and Baton Rouge,which they asked Amy to head. Thingswere brightening on the family frontas well. “Thankfully, we were able torent a place to live,” Amy says. “Andthe private schools in Baton Rougewere wonderful. They set up specialclasses [for flood refugees], served usbreakfast, helped us with uniforms forthe children…I’m so thankful.”Amy’s job was demanding, to putit mildly. “I didn’t have the staff I’dhad,” she states. “We were trying tocontact all of our parents, not knowingwhere many of them were. There wereschedules to prepare, transcripts toobtain, an incredible volume of details.On top of it all, the grocery stores wereclosing at six, and even when they wereopen, they’d be out of things. [Times-Picayune columnist] Chris Rose wroteabout the ‘new normal’ in the city—refrigerators sitting on street cornersfor a year; no restaurants; grocerystores closing at six. I told John thatwhat I craved the most was the normalcyof my past life. He’d say, ‘Yourlife is over,’ and I’d reply, ‘Quit sayingthat!’ In situations like that, all you wantis your little life back.”On November 7, 2005—barelytwo months after the storm had hit—Country Day reopened with a limitedprogram. By January, it was back at fullspeed. A $5 million capital campaignundertaken to repair the damage andrecover lost tuition concluded successfullyin summer 2007. Today, the onlyevidence that something traumatic hadhappened there is the commemorativesculpture in front of its main building.The Whites bought a house in OldMetairie not far from school. Eventually,they sold their house in Lakeviewfor half its pre-K value.So the White family is back on highground. But on that ground for Amyin the wake of the receding waters issuffering of a more intractable order.Last fall, Molly Lane, who ultimatelyhad married Wake grad Michael Hall(’90), died of cancer, leaving behindher husband and two children. Throughouta two-hour conversation about herKatrina ordeal, the only times Amy’seyes welled with tears were when shementioned Molly’s name.“In my soul and heart, I’m positive[about the future of New Orleans],”Amy says. “But I am a little deflatedabout certain aspects. I hope the entirecountry learned something fromthis—the need for better responsefrom government to disasters. We’vebeen given a great opportunity to startover with the city’s school system,but [reformers] face a lot of obstacles.And I wonder: should we be shrinkingthe city’s footprint? Should we berebuilding in the lowest areas thatare most vulnerable to flooding?“Then I hear my housekeeper tellme that all she wants is for her familyto be back in the Ninth Ward,” sheadds. “She grew up there, her wholefamily was there, it’s where they feltmost comfortable. I might not condone[her desire to rebuild in the vulnerablefloodplain], but I can certainlyunderstand it.”PHOTO BY CHRIS GRANGER / THE TIMES-PICAYUNEThe lonely home of Gary andDiane Adams on Rose Streetin Arabi over two years afterHurricane Katrina. They aresurrounded by 14 gutted andempty lots. They’ve lived onthis block for about 30 yearsand are the first to return.30 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Bob Johnson (’69)Rounding the BendEven from the depths, salvation is possible,as the resurrection and ascension of the NewOrleans Convention Center demonstrates.Standing on aPEDESTRIAN WAY with apanoramic vista of the MississippiRiver before him, Bob Johnson (’69)was feeling exceptionally buoyant.TimDuncan (’97) and Chris Paul (’07)would be squaring off at the NewOrleans Arena that evening with WakeForest hoops and ACC broadcastingicon Gil McGregor (’71) at the mike.What more could the heart of a dyedin-the-woolDeacon fan desire?Bob had another reason for floatinga bit that March morning. The ErnestN. Morial Convention Center, of whichhe is president and general manager,is back in a big way with blockbusterconvention bookings and expansionplans barely two-and-a-half years afterit had been a scene that HieronymusBosch could not have conceived.Thirteen months earlier, the native ofHampton, Virginia, had returned to thecity he had grown to love after elevenyears of professional exile, hoping insome way to help it get off its knees.In a happy sequence of serendipitousKEN BENNETTBob Johnson: Back andready to do business.circumstances, he was offered anopportunity to parlay his formidabletalents and experience in the exhibitionand convention industry intothe top post at perhaps the city’s mostimportant generator of visitor revenue,upon which it so desperately depends.So how’s it going? Water is a ubiquitousmetaphor in New Orleans, andBob has one at the ready for wherehe is standing, at the arc of the river’screscent. “We are rounding the bend,”he says, ebulliently and with obvioussincerity.Bob, whose official class year is1969 but who actually got his degreein 1970, went straight to work aftercollege as event coordinator at thenewly opened Benton ConventionCenter in Winston-Salem. Under thementorship of Jim Dalrymple (’59),a former star running back for theDeacons who oversaw the city’s sportsand exhibition facilities for decades,Bob also acquired an array of experienceat a range of other venues besidethe convention center, including theold Coliseum, Ernie Shore Field, andBowman Gray Stadium.In 1982, Bob left Winston-Salem tobecome the inaugural director of thenew Lakefront Arena at the Universityof New Orleans. Three years later, hewas appointed general manager ofthe Louisiana Superdome, the world’slargest enclosed stadium and a repeathost of most of the country’s premiersporting events, including the SuperBowl and The Final Four. In 1995,his employer, SMG, the world’s largestmanager of convention centers, theaters,stadiums, and arenas, transferredhim to corporate headquarters in Philadelphia,where he remained until hisretirement in late 2006.“Originally we were going to retireto a golf course some place, but weloved New Orleans so much,” he says.“Our daughter was in architectureschool at Tulane and would be partof the first post-Katrina graduatingclass [in spring 2007]. And I thinkI was experiencing some survivor’sguilt about not having gone throughthe hurricane and wanted to be partof the rebuilding effort. So we boughta house here and moved back inFebruary with nothing to do.”His idleness was short-lived. Amonth later, Jimmie D. Fore, who hadserved as president and general managerof the Ernest N. Morial ConventionCenter since 1991, retired. “[Conventioncenter authority president]Warren Reuther was an old colleague,and we talked,” Bob recalls. “[Convention]bookings had dropped offsignificantly [in the hurricane’s wake],and he said he wanted it to becomeactive in helping the city’s tourismhospitalityindustry to recover.” It wasthe chance to be of service to NewOrleans that Bob had been lookingfor, and in September, he was appointedto succeed Fore.JUNE 2008 31

Along with the Superdome, theconvention center was one of twodesignated refuge centers for peoplewho were stranded in the city in theaftermath of the hurricane, but it soondegraded into a hellish cauldron ofviolence, chaos, and deprivation ofbasic necessities. “The building sustainedsignificant damage at the handsof its guests,” Bob notes. “The cityreceived $62 million to renovate it,but that did not compensate for theloss of business. Direct cancellations[of conventions] as a result of thehurricane resulted in a loss of 3 millionroom-nights, which translatesinto $3 billion in economic activityfor our industry.”Bob and his staff set about thedaunting but critical task of rebrandingthe city as a convention destination.“We had to overcome the imageAmerica had of New Orleans from televisionand the fears [of professionalassociation officers who select theirconvention sites] of what would happenif another hurricane hit duringtheir meeting,” he says.“What’s helpedus more than anything are the majorconventions we hosted [over the pastyear] that came off without a hitch.The International Association ofChiefs of Police, the American Societyof Opthalmologists, the AmericanHeart Association, the Health InformationManagement Systems Society…they are our heroes because theytrusted us. It showed others that wehadn’t fallen flat.“The hotels took advantage of thedown time [after the hurricane] torefresh themselves,” he goes on.“Morerestaurants are opening now thanbefore the storm, the tourism infrastructureis back up and running at fullspeed, and all the major sports eventsthe city has hosted since the first ofthe year—the BCS Championshipgame and NBA All-Star Game in particular—haveshown the country thatwe’re back and ready to do business.”One surprisingly effective sellingpoint in drawing conventions tothe city, he says, is the opportunityto volunteer in the recovery effort.“[Conventioneers] have donated hundredsof thousands of volunteer hoursto recovery projects since the hurricane,”he says. “Rather than play golf,they spend their off time working withHabitat for Humanity or a similar relieforganization. Whereas a year ago we’dhear [from prospective groups], ‘Youpoor people,’ now we’re hearing, ‘Doyou have any dates in 2012 or 2013?’”With 1.1 million square feet ofexhibition space, the convention centeris one of the nation’s largest andbusiest. But Bob and his board havebigger things in the works. “We areplanning an expansion with modernarchitecture that will show forwardthinking,” he says. “As one movesupriver, the progression will be fromthe old New Orleans to the new.“There’s still a lot of recovery workto be done in the city,” he adds. “Butnow, for the first time, we’re startingto think that Katrina is history. We’relooking to the future.”PHOTO BY TED JACKSON / THE TIMES-PICAYJNEJohn Nemeth works to gethis yard in shape on HayPlace, just at the mouthof the 17th Street Canalbreach, while his neighbor’shouse sits in limbo.32 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

KEN BENNETTBill Marks: ‘Our biggest challenge is perception.’Bill Marks (’66)A dispersal of cloudsBill Marks sees silver linings that others might be overlooking.On a Tuesday morning inearly March, Bill Marks (’66),chairman and CEO of Whitney NationalBank of New Orleans, was interviewedand photographed in his tasteful, paneledoffice at bank headquarters on St.Charles Avenue. On Friday, he wouldretire. Everything but a few lingeringitems already had been removed fromthe floor-to-ceiling bookcases behindhis desk, rendering them ready toreceive, as the affable Bill quipped tohis guests, the “next guy’s stuff.”(The “next guy” would be his closefriend and banking partner, King Milling,whose wife, Anne, conceived Womenof the Storm and is a very dear friendof Becky Currence, who welcomed Billwhen he first arrived in New Orleansand who, with her husband, hasbecome part of the Markses’ social circleand …ah, but enough, already!)Somehow, the shelves seemed symbolicof Bill’s view of New Orleanspost-K. The hurricane had swept awaymuch that was problematic in the city,he says, rendering it ready to receivesomething new and better in its place.Bill Marks didn’t get to where he hasarrived in life by not seeing and tellingit like it is, and he is unabashedly candidin his assessment of the challengesand opportunities confronting the city.“Before the storm, New Orleans hadthree problems,” asserts Bill, a longtimeWake Forest trustee and friend offellow Alabaman and former WakeForest President Thomas K. Hearn, Jr.JUNE 2008 33

“First was a [public] school systemin which 20 percent of the studentsprogressed from the fourth to thefifth grade and from the eighth to theninth grade. It was the nation’s worst.Second was crime of a magnitude thatwe were simply unable to cope with.[For many years, the Big Easy hashad the nation’s highest murder rate.]And third was the entrenched povertythat drew heavily on our resources.“The hurricane didn’t fix the problems,but it did disperse them,” hegoes on, noting the flight of a largeportion of the Orleans Parish populationto other areas of the country.“There is a silver lining in every cloud.We now have an opportunity to addressour problems, and we must seize it.”It seems a lot of seizing has beengoing on already. Before HurricaneKatrina, charter schools accountedfor only seven of the city’s 126 publicschools. Today, more than forty of theroughly eighty operating schools inOrleans Parish are charters. New Orleansis the only major city in Americawhere a majority of its public schoolstudents are being educated under thecharter school system. It remains tobe seen to what extent, or even if, thecharters will scholastically outperformthe publics they replaced, but they areundeniably a positive step. “Hopefullythey will have better teachers, instillmore discipline, and achieve betteroutcomes,” Bill says.Bill points to other positive indicators.Although the population of OrleansParish remains well below its pre-Klevel, the metropolitan area as a whole—boosted by population surges in itssuburbs north of the lake—is aboutwhere it was before the storm. Salestax receipts in New Orleans, the keyindicator of the health of its tourismbasedeconomy and the lifeblood ofits government, are close to 90 percentof what they were pre-K.‘We havebeen clamoringfor help,and I thinkthe rest ofthe nationis getting tiredof hearing it.’These and other trends lead Billto believe that New Orleans can andshould rely largely on its own resourcesto finish its recovery. “Not everyonewould agree with me on this, but Ithink the feds already have given us alot of help and that perhaps we haven’tdone everything we can for ourselves,”he says. “There seems to be an attitude[in this country] that, ‘I’m American;you owe me something.’ We havebeen clamoring for help, and I thinkthe rest of the nation is getting tiredof hearing it. [Massive] governmentaid is not coming, and nothing leadsme to expect that it will be coming inthe future. There will be no shortageof [private] capital, as capital followsopportunity. However, we do need toget our house in order with regard tocrime, education, corruption, [and soforth] and do more as a city to encouragecompanies to come here.”Bill, who started his banking careerwith Wachovia and moved on to abank in Huntsville, Alabama, beforeassuming the leadership of Whitney,the city’s only remaining locally ownedand operated major bank, doesacknowledge the presence of certainpersistent and particularly vexingproblems, some of which he thinkswill require federal assistance to solve.Katrina rendered more than 200,000housing units in the metropolitan areauninhabitable and the demand forhousing continues to outstrip supply.Not surprisingly, rents have doubledor more, to levels that are beyond thereach of the blue-collar and servicework forces upon which the city sodesperately depends for its recovery.“The lack of affordable housing isa major impediment to growth, andfrankly I don’t know how we’ll solveit,” Bill says. Wetland restoration andprotection is something “the governmentis doing and will have to stayinvolved with,” he says. And there isthe issue of whether or not the LowerNinth Ward should be rebuilt. Billis of the opinion that it should not.Despite the seeming tsunami ofchallenges, Bill is holding his ground.“I’d say that right now, our biggestchallenge, inside and outside the city,is perception—perception of what weare, where we are, and what we need,”he states. “I am excited about the prospectsfor New Orleans. I truly believewe will come back and will be a betterplace because of it.”PHOTO BY JENNIFER ZDON / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE34 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Ray Cannata (’90)Toward the painA minister forsakes America’s wealthiest county and findsriches beyond his wildest expectations amid devastation.Odds are that RayCannata (’90) wakes up talking.If his mouth were a rifle, it wouldhave been on full automatic mode theMarch morning he entertained two visitorsfrom Wake Forest. One of themwas a seasoned scribe, and even hehad to ask Ray to ease off the trigger abit so he could catch his entire salvo.Behind Ray’s bursts are the boundlessfaith, hope, and charity he is bringingto the task of rebuilding New Orleans.Once uncomfortably ensconced in oneof the nation’s richest areas, the Presbyterianpastor is marshalling a ministryof mission work that to date has renovatedsome 300 flood-decimated housesin the Crescent City.Raised in the outer boroughs ofNew York City, Ray followed the pathof his father and enrolled in law schoolafter graduating from Wake Forest. “Ittook me about five weeks to know itwasn’t for me,” he says while sittingwith his wife, Kathy Fortier Cannata(’89), on the porch of their doubleshotgun house at the corner of HenryThe Shell Shockers soccerteam hold up a section of drywall before screwing it intothe ceiling as they volunteerto rebuild the home of LesterEvans in St. Bernard as partof the St. Bernard Project.Clay and Magazine in the underbellyof Uptown.What was for him, he knew, wasGod’s work. After completing his studiesat Princeton Theological Seminaryin 1991, he entered the Presbyterianministry and joined a parish in therichest county per capita in the country—SomersetCounty, New Jersey.“For fourteen years I was bored out ofmy head,” he says. “The church I wasat was program-driven, with not muchdiversity. I wanted to move away fromthe suburbs and into an urban core.”Ray learned of a pastorship openingat a small church in New Orleanscalled Redeemer. The church, whichwas affiliated with the PresbyterianChurch of America, the more liberal,socially active, and evangelical of thetwo branches of the denomination inAmerica, was quartered in an unpretentiousshotgun on Magazine Streetand had already failed twice underprevious pastors. New Orleans has thesmallest concentration of evangelicalProtestant churches in the nation, withone-quarter of 1 percent of its houses ofworship falling into that category, stackingthe odds against the tiny parish.“I was invited to come down a weekbefore Katrina,” he says. “I was workingon my doctoral dissertation then,and I literally dropped my books topick up the phone. I never picked themup again. I went down, became excitedabout its relational focus, fell in lovewith the city, and made an appointmentto go down for a second interview.“My appointment was for Monday,August 29—the day Katrina hit,” hegoes on. “I remember thinking as Iwatched the news reports of its approachthat I hope they don’t cancel my flight.Instead, they canceled the whole city.”Overnight, Ray was looking at anentirely different church—if it couldeven be called a church.“Two-thirds ofthe congregation left the city for goodafter the storm,” he notes. “There wereseventeen members left.” But if anything,the disaster had only intensifiedhis attraction to the post. “I turneddown an offer from the most affluentchurch in San Diego before I knew forsure that I would be coming [to NewOrleans],” he says. His appointmentwas approved in December, and onJanuary 2, 2006, he, Kathy, and theirtwo young children piled into theirvehicle, put New Jersey in their rearviewmirror, and drove downhill to aplace at the very bottom.Redeemer’s modest congregationwas a mixed bag, populated by aneclectic panoply of starving-artisttypes, mostly musicians. There wereeccentrics like the “Cat Lady,” whocared for close to fifty felines, andyoung entrepreneurs perpetuallyJUNE 2008 35

uffeted and rendered itinerant bythe incessant boom-and-bust vagariesof their aspirations. Membership turnoverwas high as a result.“As an example,”Ray says, “last year, we saw 120members join and sixty leave.”On the first Sunday that Raypreached, there were thirty-five peopleinside the mainstream church on St.Charles Avenue that Redeemer rentsfor its weekly services. “Everybodythought we needed an Oprah moment—a big hug, with everybody feelingeverybody’s pain,” he says. “I said no;what we need is to serve our community.What I saw in this church wasa deficit of purpose. We didn’t needcoddling; we needed a mission.”And a mission it got. Ray took athousand bucks from the church’s coffersto buy tools and then launched anexternal fundraising effort that enabledit to buy and renovate a flood-damaged,3,900-square-foot house in Broadmoorto house the missionaries he envisionedcoming to volunteer. He got the wordout and soon they started arriving—ingroups small and large; from churchesall over America; some 3,000 of themRay and Kathy Cannata: ‘This placehas as much to teach us as we have toteach it—about celebration, diversity,forgiveness, and grace.’KEN BENNETTover the past two years to help rebuilda broken community.Ray says Redeemer—which todayaverages about 175 members, withbetween 110 and 115 attending serviceson any given Sunday—spendstwo-thirds of its budget on the project.“The homeowners supply the materialsand we supply the labor,” he explains.“[Missionaries] stay anywhere from aweekend to four months, but probably95 percent of them are here for a week.They put in fifty hours [of labor] andhave time on their own to enjoy thecity.” Fifteen former missionaries, mostlyrecent college graduates in their twenties,have returned to New Orleans tolive and work. Among them is MaryGiardina (’06), who is serving as a sort ofresident advisor at the Broadmoor house.Ray estimates that churches aredoing 80 percent of the grass-rootsrecovery work in the city. “People herehave lost faith in political institutions,”he says. “They feel that the federal, state,and local governments have let themdown, and they are very grateful forthe churches.” He expects Redeemerto be active in the rebuilding effort fortwenty years or more.Ray has an aphorism for his mission:“moving toward the pain.” “When aplague struck Rome in the secondcentury, the Romans moved out andthe Christians moved in to care forthe sick and dying,” he notes.“In theMiddle Ages it was the Christians whoresponded to the suffering of the BlackDeath. New Orleans is the first realopportunity that we [as Christians]have had in this country in 200 yearsto move toward the pain.”Although Ray acknowledges thedangers of living in perhaps America’smost crime-infested city (recently someonewas shot across the street from hisson’s school in full view of the boy), andis dismayed by its entrenched poverty,the rate of which approximates 35 percent,he has come to love New Orleans,and he and Kathy plan to stay for therest of their lives. (Although she grewup in Florida, Kathy has roots that rundeep in New Orleans. Fortier is a venerableLouisiana name, and by movingto New Orleans she constitutes theeleventh consecutive generation of herfamily to have lived in the city.)“I must know every shop memberon Magazine Street for a mile eachway,” Ray grins. “There’s so much here.The charter schools offer real promisefor turning around the tragic cycle thathas persisted here for so long. Uniformsare worn and discipline is stressed.There are schools devoted to architecture,music, and other subjects. Ourfour-year-old daughter goes to a charterschool at which only French is spoken.”He pauses to reflect. “Some missionariesthink they’re coming here tosave Sin City,” he says. “But to havean authentic Christian experience, youneed two things: you need a clear pictureof the Fall, the brokenness of theworld, and you need a vivid pictureof the Kingdom of Heaven. Yes, this isa city of bloodshed and pain. But it isalso a city that knows how to celebrateand how to party, as Jesus Himself did.“This place has as much to teachus [Christians] as we have to teachit—about celebration, diversity, forgiveness,and grace,” he concludes.“It shows a perfect picture of both theFall and the Kingdom. That’s what Iwant for my kids.”36 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Senior Katherine Scott,right, in pink, andsophomore AmyBachman, left, in green,pack groceries fordispossessed parishresidents at the foodbank of the CommunityCenter of St. Bernard,where the student groupspent most of its timewhile in New Orleans.PHOTOS BY KEN BENNETTStudent VolunteersGoing with the flowSeventeen student volunteers assimilate some simple truths aboutservice while assisting and assessing the situation in New Orleans.Sophomore Greg Bankscarries garden wastehe had generated to adumpster at the NewOrleans Botanical Gardenin City Park.Almost threeyears after floodingfomented by Hurricane Katrina filledthe bowl of New Orleans to the brim,a deluge of a different kind continuesto cover the Crescent City. Volunteersby the carload come from all cornersof the country to contribute to itsrecovery, keeping it smothered insweat and empathy.The tide surges in March, whencollege students on spring breakdescend on the city. A group of seventeenWake Forest students was amongthe influx this spring. During theirseven-day visit March 8–15, the studentswent with the flow and met theneed, no matter how humble or makeworktheir assignments might haveseemed. They were inspired by thepeople they met and the conditionsthey observed, and student life organizerstentatively are making plans for areturn trip next year.Alternative spring breaks, whichoffer students opportunities for experiencesof a more positive and purposefulnature than what is customarily associatedwith the term “spring break,” havebeen gaining popularity in recent yearson campuses across the nation. Mostentail service in impoverished or otherwisedisadvantaged areas here andabroad. Besides New Orleans, groupssponsored by the Wake Forest StudentLife Office this spring served at ananimal shelter on Hilton Head Island,South Carolina, and tutored low-incomehigh school students in Stevens, Arkansas,as they prepped for their collegeentrance tests. Faith-based campusorganizations, meanwhile, dispatchedJUNE 2008 37

Junior Elisabeth Collins, left,and freshman ChristinaFederowicz pull weeds in a bedat the Botanical Garden.The popular attractionis slowly recovering after beingdecimated by flooding.During dinner, a woman we didn’t even knowjust came up and gave us a heartfelt thank you for being here andhelping to rebuild. It’s just been amazing to see how much we’reappreciated here, and I hope we can keep making a difference afterwe get home. —Andrea Davis, juniorJunior Evan Raleigh takes abreak from his service workto play with Joshua Johnstonat a flood-ravaged house inSt. Bernard Parish.an additional eight groups totalingmore than a hundred participants onservice trips to Trinidad, Honduras, theDominican Republic, Pearling, Mississippi,Houma, Louisiana, New YorkCity, and Panama City Beach, Florida.With student interest in civicengagement and volunteering on theupswing generally, participation can becompetitive. More than forty studentsapplied for the New Orleans slots,which were restricted by the housingthat would be available in the city.Participants were chosen through aninterview process to determine theirmotives, the extent of their civic andcampus involvements, and their vocationalreflections and aspirations.Relief Spark, a New Orleans-basedvolunteer clearinghouse organizationthat provided its housing and assignedand oversaw its work, split the groupits first morning on the job, assigninghalf the students to a communitycenter in devastated St. Bernard Parishand the other half to City Park, one ofAmerica’s largest urban parks whichhad been covered by brackish water.The park group was assigned to pullweeds and dead plants at the popularBotanical Garden so that new floracould be planted and admissioncharged to generate revenue for otherpark restoration projects.“My small hometown [Vestal, NewYork] had been flooded, and I saw howit had been impacted,” said freshmanChristina Federowicz during a respitefrom the soil. “I have friends who hadlived here and I was inspired by what Ihad seen and heard about New Orleans’struggle and I wanted to come andhelp.” Her companions had other, differingvolunteer backgrounds and motivationsfor joining the trip. SophomoreTeddy Aronson of Essex Fells, NewYork, thought New Orleans had been“removed from our national list of38 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Sophomore Greg Banks priesnails from studs in the guttedhome of Sandy Pelas in St.Bernard Parish.I think the mainmessage that residents… wanted us to bring backwith us is that New Orleansand its people are aliveand kickin’. Their housesmay have been destroyedbut their spirits are [high],and they [are driven] to getthis city back to pre-Katrina standards. Even though [flood victim]Sandy’s house was destroyed by 10 feet of water, she[c]ould recount with a smile [the story of the] 12-foot alligator[that had entered her house]. Stories like these reflect the positiveattitude and… the awesome culture that is alive and wellin New Orleans. —Elisabeth Collins, juniorpriorities” and needed help. “Weedingmight not be the most important job,”he said, “but it needs doing.” JuniorElisabeth Collins of Ellicott City, Maryland,who has volunteered extensivelywith special needs and refugee populations,said service is a great way ofmeeting people. Junior Katie White ofWellesley, Massachusetts, said the tripoffered an “opportunity to get outsidemy bubble.” Senior Katherine Scott ofWallingford, Connecticut, whose priorvolunteer experience included serviceat a Russian orphanage, said she “knewwhat a terrific experience it was to getoutside myself,” adding: “You don’talways get to choose what you wantto do, so you do whatever is needed.”And junior Matt Triplett of Wilkesboro,North Carolina, said that Wake Forest’smotto of Pro Humanitate “spoke tome” as he applied to colleges. Now,he added, “As much as Wake hasgiven to me, I want to give back.”Later, the park group reunited withits other half at the Community Centerof St. Bernard, a garish-blue concreteblockstructure on a side street pockmarkedwith treacherous potholes inflood-ravaged St. Bernard Parish justdownriver from the Lower Ninth Ward.The center, which is sponsored by acoalition of more than thirty nonprofitorganizations, provides, at no cost tothe parish’s eroded population, clothing,non-perishable food products,telephone service, Internet access, variouscounseling services, and, perhapsmost importantly, a welcoming placeto gather with others in similar circumstances.The students spent mostof their stay there, sorting clothing,stocking food shelves, cooking thedaily noon meal, and spending timewith the dispossessed and sometimesdesperate people who came and went.One of those was Sandy Pelas, astout woman with a story that was aFlood victims Jimmy (top) andEdward pose for a photo at theCommunity Center of St. Bernard.JUNE 2008 39

A solitary FEMA trailer stands in an empty field inthe Lower Ninth Ward that once was partitionedinto blocks that contained scores of houses. TheIndustrial Canal floodwall whose breach wiped outthe dwellings can be seen in the background.litany of misfortune. Flooded from herformer home, packed into a FEMAtrailer with her fiancé and six others,and sickened by the fumes she wasconvinced it was emitting, she boughtand began to renovate another flooddamageddwelling with the funds shereceived from the state’s Road Homerebuilding program. But then a fraudulentcontractor who did a bit of electricalwork at the house bilked her ofmuch of her cash before stealing mostof the rest. Unable to pay for labor, shehad come to the center looking forcollege students who would installsheetrock. “This wasn’t my plan,” shesaid. “I wanted to pay for it.” The studentsagreed to help and followed herthrough the barren landscape to herhouse in a mostly abandoned subdivision,only to find that the structure wasfar from ready for drywall. The bestthey could do that day was pull nailsfrom studs, but they all agreed thattheir time had not been wasted. “Eightpeople in a FEMA trailer, with one ofSt. BernardParish isthe only U.S.county [everto have beencompletely] underwater. [At theCommunity Center,]Stephen, a localresident, [told ushis personal story].His loss included hishome, his possessions,and his wife.He has dedicated hislife to rebuilding his community. He told usthat he felt like the volunteers were the trueheroes of the storm. This [inspired] our groupto become more motivated to serve our ownlocal community. —Devin Cowens, juniorRebecca Currence (’61) tells the students abouther organization, Women of the Storm, atthe Community Center of St. Bernard. Beckyspent the better part of a day with the studentsat their service sites at City Park and theCommunity Center. Later in the week, she andher husband, Dick (’61), treated the studentsto dinner at a favorite eatery.40 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

People in St.Bernard Parish,the Lower NinthWard, andLakeview are just[now] moving home orare living in trailers in frontof their houses waiting forthem to be fixed-up. Some,but not many, businessesare reopening in theseareas, and when you drivethrough these neighborhoods, it looks like the storm hit just afew weeks ago. That’s probably the scariest part: it’s been solong, yet there is still so much to be done. However, it was madeclear to us that as long as groups like us continue to come downand help rebuild the city, it will start to return to the way it waswithin a few years. —Katie Gomez, juniorthem [confined to] a wheelchair…thisis putting a face on a catastrophe,” saidsophomore Jermyn Davis of Atlanta,cradling the child of a friend of Sandy’swho had accompanied her to the center.“The trip was a trying experiencefor all of us, I think,” said trip leadersophomore Devin Cowens after theirreturn. “The damage seemed worsethan we expected, partly because ofthe time that has passed since the hurricane.I think some of us thought thatmore would have been accomplished.And there were many aspects of ourschedule that were out of our controland required on-the-spot adjustments.“But then we talked about how wecould bring our experience back toWake Forest andbecome delegateson behalf of NewOrleans,” she continued.“And wecan look back andsee how we hadstayed positive,flexible, and cohesiveas a group.It was definitelya positive experience,and we are definitely thinkingabout returning next year.”To read more comments from the students,read their blog at www.wfu.edu/magazine.JUNE 2008 41

COURTESY OF KATINA PARKER‘I’m still here’ reads a message spray-painted on a New Orleans business.Labor of LoveKatina Parker (’96):Helping families comehome again.By Scott HolterWhen KatinaParker (’96) accompaniedstudent volunteers from a Los Angelescollege to New Orleans in the spring of2007, her purpose was to document theexperience of a city still devastated ayear and a half after Hurricane Katrina.But she never fathomedthe level of devastationthat awaited her,nor how a city and itspeople could changeher path in life.“Once I got thereand saw the amount of work that stillneeded to be done, it just kept comingback to me,” Parker remembers. “Icouldn’t stop thinking about it.”Fifteen months later, New Orleansand the Gulf Coast is practically allthat Parker thinks about. As directorof New Orleans: A Labor of Love, agrassroots, Web-based public awarenesscampaign that she launched soonafter that first visit, Parker is seekingto recruit and coordinatea minimumof 5,000 volunteersto help rebuild thecity during 2008.The communicationsmajor evengave up her job as a media strategistto handle the 18-hour-a-day workload.She left her home in California to liveagain in North Carolina, where she42 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

coordinates an efficient recruitmentprocess and helps diversify projects forthose volunteers.“We connect people with NewOrleans citizens, so when they aredown there they realize what the peopleare going through,” Parker says.“We want volunteers to bear witnessto what is happening and walk awayunderstanding the magnitude. Wewant them to go back to their communitiesand tell people, and maybeeven talk to their state representativesso something can get doneabout this.”Parker, who has served as avolunteer several times since thatinitial visit, calls the experience“isolating.” She speaks of areaswhere just a third of the businesseshave reopened, where peoplehave no health care options, andwhere libraries and bookstoresare not available to the public.But what tugs at her most arethe fragmenting of families andthe loss of homes. “A home isn’tfour walls, a home is memories,”she says. “I’m patriotic aboutpeople living in homes they grewup in and maintaining those homesfor generations. Some of these peoplelived in their homes for fifty years,raised families and had all of theirfamily photos there. The impact of thatis huge, and it compels me and frightensme all at once.”When Parker speaks of those in NewOrleans who’ve lost those memories,one man comes to mind, someone shecalls “Mr. Dilbert.” At 64 and with acare-dependent wife, he still lives in aFEMA-supplied trailer and gets by on a$600 Social Security check each month.“He just wants to rebuild the housethat he lived in, even though otherskeep telling him that it should be leveled,”Parker says. “He’s representativeof many down there: they need thehelp, but they don’t know how to getassistance. Even the paperwork can beintimidating for them.”Parker began the campaign to helpNew Orleans, but it took just a coupleof phone calls from people outside thecity needing assistance—in other GulfCoast towns in Louisiana and Mississippi—torealize the scope needed tobe expanded. “When someone saysKatina Parker: ‘We want volunteers to bear witnessto what is happening.’they live in a house with damage andmold and they don’t know where tostart, I can’t imagine turning themdown,” she says. “I don’t have a passionfor New Orleans as much as Ihave a passion for people.”Parker, who attended Wake Foreston a Joseph G. Gordon Scholarship,served as president of the Black StudentAlliance as an undergraduate. Shecredits many experiences at WakeForest for helping to ignite her enthusiasmfor New Orleans. She workedfor two years under Reynolds Professorof American Studies Maya Angelou,and founded a program called “MyKidsz,” which helped fund a creativewriting program for a group of localsixth-graders.Postgraduate work in film studiesat the University of Southern Californiabrought Parker to the WestCoast, where she served for years asa media strategist for the Gay &Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation,an advocacy job that, she says, wasinstrumental in the kind of work shedoes for A Labor of Love.She has given her new organizationa strong presence on Web sites like MySpace and Facebook, aiming torecruit more African-Americansand to make volunteering “thesexy and popular thing to do.”A viral video campaign is in theworks, where short film clipsof the ongoing work in NewCOURTESY OF KATINA PARKEROrleans get posted weekly onYouTube.Perhaps her biggest splash isset for August 29, when a docutelethoncalled “Dream Big ’08”will be broadcast nationwide onseveral yet-to-be-determinedlifestyle-based channels. Filmedduring the first two weeks ofApril, the event is part “MTVSpring Break,” part Gulf Coastrelief, and chock-full of both entertainmentand volunteering opportunitiesand resources.“We understand the cultural valueof New Orleans,” Parker says. “There’sno other place like it in the world,and somehow, it occupies a space inour imaginations. I not only want thatto continue, I want those who livethere to continue to call it home. We’redoing our best, but a project is only assuccessful as the passion of the peoplewho support it.”To learn more about New Orleans: ALabor of Love, or to volunteer in therebuilding of New Orleans and the GulfCoast region, visit www.nolaboroflove.com.JUNE 2008 43

Going BackThrough persistenceand a fateful planeconversation, ShelleyGraves (’06) helpsto rebuild and reviveNew Orleans.By Scott HolterShelley Graves: Getting residents to stay, and others to come back.New Orleans “I became instantly enamored withwas just another big city to the city and the people,” says Graves,the daughter of two Baptist ministers who majored in communications. “Itas she was growing up in Wake Forest, has a passionate and friendly spiritNorth Carolina. But to Shelley Graves completely different from anywhere(’06), now a Wake Forest graduate in the country, or in the world for thatstudent, the multicultural Gulf Coast matter. I love cities with a neighborhoodsystem, where people associatemecca has turned into a home awayfrom home and an enthusiasm— where they live by their neighborhood,nearly an obsession.and in New Orleans, they live in the44 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

same neighborhoods for four or fiveor six generations.”Sustaining homes. Sustainingneighborhoods and cities. That iswhere Rebuilding Together comesin, one that ignited a conviction inGraves during the one-year commitmentshe made to the group. Whathappened in the middle of that twelvemonthtime frame would reaffirm hercommitment to nonprofit work andfurther the cause of the 35-year-oldorganization, which provides freerepair and rehabilitation services tolow-income homeowners nationwide.Graves, who was a Poteat Scholarat Wake Forest, is a third-generationalumnus, following her mother, GingerSmith (’78), grandfather Roy Smith (’53)and grandmother Doris Pearce (’55).After graduating, she put graduateschool on the back burner and movedto Washington, D.C., in August 2006to join Americorps, which placed herwith Rebuilding Together. She agreedto live at poverty level in her new city,which meant a federal governmentstipend of $850 a month, sharing aone-bedroom apartment with anotherwoman, and using food stamps forher weekly grocery shopping. “Weweren’t allowed to have a second job,”she remembers. “Luckily I didn’t needa car. I lived close enough to the officeto walk to work.”Zealous by nature, Graves wasinstantly compelled by the enthusiasmat Rebuilding Together, watching herco-workers focus on home modification,disaster relief, and veterans’housing at more than 235 affiliatesscattered throughout the country.Graves knew the program, the people,and the affiliates well, for as a developmentcoordinator, it was her job tosell them. She worked the phones,served as a face of the organization,and got the message out.Two months later came the opportunityto visit New Orleans during anational convention of Realtors, manyof whom had volunteered to help acity ravaged by Hurricane Katrina just15 months earlier. “I had many greatallies (at Rebuilding Together), andone was the disaster-relief coordinator,”Graves recalls. “This was an opportunityto get out of the office and getmy hands dirty. I got to be a volunteermanager and runner. I drove a truckback and forth to different buildingsites to pick up and drop off supplies.”Graves spent a week in NewOrleans, working mainly in the historicallyblack St. Rock neighborhood,which had been under four to ninefeet of water during Katrina. Therewere few people on the streets, sometimesonly the National Guard, andlittle traffic. “We wanted those whoremained in New Orleans to stay,”Graves says. “But we also wantedthose who left to come back.”When her week was up, Gravesboarded a plane to return to thenation’s capital with a newfound zestfor New Orleans and for RebuildingTogether. “I was just thinking howunique New Orleans was and how,outside of the tourism stuff, if youallow yourself to take it in you’ll feelthe difference,” she says. “As I satdown on the plane, I really thought itwas a cause I wanted to get behind.”Never one to shy away from astranger, Graves struck up a conversationwith the man seated on the aislenext to her. Homesick, she was pleasedto hear that he was from North Carolina,and they talked about their homestate and NASCAR before talk turnedto why she was in Louisiana.“I learned early that it’s always agood idea to tell people what you’redoing,” Graves says, “because younever know if the guy sitting next toyou is a gazillionaire.” He wasn’t. Buthe did work for a gazillion-dollarcompany: Lowe’s, the Charlotte-basedhome improvement store. Graves askedthe marketing executive what his companywas doing philanthropically.“We’re looking to expand intohome rehabilitation,” he said. A fewweeks later, a check arrived at Graves’office from Lowe’s for $1 million tobe used for project grants to allowRebuilding Together affiliates to operatemore autonomously.Thrilled that her chance meetingled to her greatest fundraising coup,Graves did not rest. She made threemore trips to New Orleans duringthe next year, including one since sheleft Rebuilding Together to return toWake Forest for graduate school. Sheplans to return, tethered by a threadof hope that she and thousands ofvolunteers can continue to make adifference in restoring the city. “I wantedto make sure what I was doing (atRebuilding Together) would be sustainablebeyond my time there,” shesays. “(Working there) has only reaffirmedeven more my interest in nonprofit.I’ll probably eventually put offmy Ph.D. to work more in the field.“It started with my family beingvery community-minded. It continuedat Wake Forest and its encouragementfor community service. And with this,it has not only influenced the typesof things I’m interested in, but how Iview the world.”To volunteer or contribute to therebuilding of New Orleans and theGulf Coast region, contact ShelleyGraves at shelley.graves@gmail.comor visit www.rebuildingtogether.org.JUNE 2008 45

Class of thefinestFarewell to a quartet of faculty giants:the world’s foremost scholar of Dante’s DivineComedy, an artist who helped sculpt the modern artdepartment, the longtime chair of classicallanguages, and a stalwart of the physics department.HE WAIT CHAPEL TOWER MIGHTTbe built of red brick, but in itsbrightness and value to the intellectuallife of Wake Forest, it was for manyyears decidedly ivory. There, in a warrenof offices just below its carillon belfry,were five of the finest minds ever to havegraced the Reynolda Campus. GermaineBrée, Robert Helm (’39), James RalphScales, Al Martin, and Allen Mandelbaumplied their gifts as distinguishedprofessors, synthesizing thoughts andconnecting dots as intellectuals withoutportfolio. Their lofty perch seemedto symbolize their exalted statures andpanoramic views of the human experienceas only the humanities can afford.Now, with the observance and celebrationof Mandelbaum’s retirement thisspring, all are deceased or retired, andwe’re not likely to see their kind againany time soon. For many years, thevenerable breed of the cross-disciplinaryintellectual has been in decline withthe rise of specialization in scholarship.Mandelbaum’s departure nudges thespecies that much closer to the brinkof extinction.46 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

A Towering INFERNOAllen Mandelbaum, the last of a special breed of intellectuals atWake Forest and perhaps the world’s foremost scholar, interpreter, andcritic of Dante’s Divine Comedyand other classical works, retires.Friends and colleagues honored theW.R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Humanitiesat a dinner in his honor on May 5. Inrecognition of his vast scholarly outputand the esteem in which he is heldinternationally, his papers will be keptin a new Allen Mandelbaum ReadingRoom in the Z. Smith Reynolds Library.Few if any faculty members in WakeForest’s history have achieved the kindof worldwide status that Mandelbaumhas in his field. His verse translationsof Dante’s Divine Comedy are widelyregarded as the finest ever, and they arenearly equaled by his powerful, poetictranslations of Ovid’s Metamorphoses,Homer’s Odyssey, and Virgil’s Aeneid,which won the National Book Award.The recipient of numerous honorarydegrees and other awards, Mandelbaumis especially revered in Italy,which has bestowed upon him itshighest award, the Presidential Crossof the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity,along with several other citations,including, as the only Americanever to receive it, the Gold Medal ofHonor of Florence, Italy. A gifted poetin his own right, he has publishedfive volumes of verse, with another inpreparation.“Allen has about him the aura of anOld World scholar that one would haveto go back to before World War II tofind,” says Edwin G. Wilson (’43), professorof English and Provost Emerituswho was instrumental in luring Mandelbaumfrom the Graduate Center of theCity University of New York to WakeForest to succeed Brée as Kenan Professorin 1989. “He reminds me of [thinkerslike] Isaiah Berlin, deeply conversantin history, literature, languages,culture, and religion; a person who hasembraced everything worth knowing.”A devout and learned Jew, Mandelbaumis also highly knowledgeable ofand drawn to Christianity, bridging thetwo faith traditions in his life and writing.“In the Divine Comedy, Dante takes thereader from Hell [Inferno] to Heaven[Paradiso], through Purgatory [Purgatorio],”notes Lily Saade, who has servedas Mandelbaum’s assistant since 1990.“A scholar of this great work couldnot travel the way of Dante withoutembracing the hope of Christianity—of man finally reaching God.”Those closest to Mandelbaumacknowledge the apparent contradictionsin his personality. Whereas manythink of him as aloof, many othersregard him as generous and caring. Atthe dinner in May, Professor of EnglishJames Hans spoke of the encouragementand support Mandelbaum gave him earlyin his career and down through theyears, despite having taught him inonly one course as a visiting professorat the graduate school Hans attended.“In his translation of the Aeneid,Allen powerfully renders a fundamentalhuman question when a characternamed Nisus asks his friend beforethey engage in a battle they will lose:‘Euryalus, is it the gods who put thisfire in our minds, or is it that eachman’s relentless longing becomes a godto him,’” Hans told the dinner assembly.“The one thing we know for certainis that Allen’s fire burns morebrightly than anyone else’s, and forthat, all of us in the Wake Forest communityshould be grateful.”—David FytenJUNE 2008 47

Ebb and flowThe migratory Robert Knott built nests in Maine and Winston-Salemand a department at Wake Forest.N THE EARLY SEVENTIES, a youngIart historian in Boston named RobertH. Knott and his wife, Elen, bought acottage in Lubec, Maine, the easternmosttown in the continental UnitedStates. Situated on PassamaquoddyBay, an inlet of the Bay of Fundy, andfeaturing the world’s highest tides andspectacular views of the New Brunswickcoast, migrating whales, and warrenof islands (including Campobello, thesummer domicile of Franklin D. Roosevelt),Lubec was home to a prosperousfishing industry that harvested,smoked, and canned millions of tonsof herring from the Gulf Stream-fedwaters of the Atlantic ContinentalShelf each year.But as overfishing depleted the fishinggrounds over time, the industrywaned. Today, Lubec contains littlemore than ramshackle remnants ofharbor-front fishing shacks and canneriesand the quaint homes of seasonalresidents like the Knotts.A few years after arriving in Maine,Knott migrated again to a new settingthat would manifest the reverse ofLubec’s growth arc. In 1975, he acceptedan offer to join the nascent art departmentat Wake Forest. At the time, theUniversity did not offer an art major.Its two full-time art instructors werehistorians, and its studio program wasessentially an extracurricular activityquartered on the sixth floor of thelibrary. But President James RalphScales and Provost Edwin G. Wilson(’43) had a grand vision for the arts atthe school. Construction had begunon a comprehensive facility for the finearts that would be named after Scales,and Wilson had spearheaded thesecuring of grants from the NationalEndowment for the Arts and the RockefellerFoundation to hire a faculty andbring in visiting artists in residence.A year after his arrival, Knott wasappointed chair and went about thetask of building a faculty. By 1980,when he vacated the post, the departmentwas up to eight faculty membersand a major program that includedstudio art as well as art history was inplace. Today, the department featuresclose to fifteen full-time faculty membersand a host of part-time artists andinstructors and offers one of WakeForest’s most popular undergraduateprograms, with approximately seventymajors and a similar number of minors.Bob Knott is retiring this month—the first and so far only faculty memberto retire from the art department—and if he takes any credit for the flourishingof art at Wake Forest, it is theculture of collegiality he consciouslycultivated in his early hires and thathas continued through the years. Fromhistorians like Margaret Supplee Smithand Harry Titus, who were among hisvery first appointments; through printmakers,sculptors, and painters like DavidFaber, David Finn, and Page Laughlin,who were vanguards of a solid secondwave; and on down to the addition ofnationally prominent scholars and criticslike David Lubin and Peter Brunette inrecent years; the art faculty has soundeda tone of creativity and collaborationthat resonates through the lower wingof the Scales Fine Arts Center andacross campus.By virtue of his background anddemeanor, it would be easy to assumethat Knott is a New Englander. Butactually, he’s a Southerner, born andraised in Memphis. After graduatingfrom Stanford, he earned a master’sdegree in art history at the Universityof Illinois (where he met Elen) and adoctorate at the University of Pennsylvaniain early twentieth-century art,and then took his first (and only other)academic job at the Boston campus ofthe University of Massachusetts.It was the opportunity to be part ofshaping Wake Forest’s new programthat convinced him to migrate south.“One of my major concerns when Iarrived was that the plan [for expansionof the department] was weightedmuch more heavily toward historythan toward studio,” recalls Knott, alithe, bespectacled fellow with an evenand decorous temperament. “I pushedhard for equal weighting, the resultbeing a much more balanced andthriving department.”Knott looked for prospective facultywho were collegial as well as talented.“Students are perceptive enough totune into that,” he says. “The fact thata lot of our early hires are still here istestimony to the benefit of that approach.We’ve got great colleagues here.”One of Knott’s most rewardingefforts has been his leadership of theStudent Union Art Collection quadrennialacquisition trip. Every four years48 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

since the sixties, a coterie of students,armed with a substantial budget, hastraveled to New York City to buyworks by promising but not-yet-wellestablishedartists. As a result of theirinformed choices, the collection todaycomprises works by some of the mostluminous names in contemporary artthat are worth many times what theywere bought for. “It is an invaluablelearning opportunity for the students,with the bonus of building a wonderfuland relevant collection of modernart for the University,” says Knott, whoprior to each trip taught a course onthe aesthetic and business aspects ofthe acquisition process for the participants.“It really sets us apart from ourpeer institutions.”The acquisition trip is but one facetof Knott’s efforts at helping build asolid network of contacts for WakeForest among the galleries, museums,auction houses, agencies, and otherconstituencies of New York’s art community.For three years, he teamtaughta seminar with Gordon E.McCray (’85) of the Calloway Schoolof Business and Accountancy on“Management and the Visual Arts.”Limited to eight art majors and eightbusiness majors, the seminar focuseson the interrelationships between theartist and the various commercialaspects of art. “We’ve already placeda number of our graduates in jobs inNew York through the seminar,” Knottreports. “In general, we have a lot ofsupportive alumni who are prominentin New York [art circles] and are willingcontacts for us and our students.”An accomplished studio artist as wellas historian, Knott draws much of hiscreative inspiration from the demiseof Maine’s fishing industry, fashioningsculptures out of flotsam and jetsam—wood planks, lobster tags, bits of rope,posts from which herring was hung,and so forth—he gathers from theshore in and around Lubec during thesummer. “I like that it’s had anotherlife,” he says of his found material.A skilled photographer, he is especiallyknown for the unique photographicinterpretation that he createdof Venice—colorful hanging laundry—while serving as Casa Artom directorin 2002. “I don’t really considermyself a photographer,” he says.“I usethe camera as an extension of my eye.I’m always looking for the unusual.”A retrospective of his work was exhibitedin Wake Forest’s art gallery thispast semester (for an audio tour of hisexhibit, visit www.wfu.edu/magazine).With two daughters and four grandchildrenin close proximity to Winston-Salem, the Knotts aren’t moving anywherepermanently, although they arelooking forward to finally having thechance to experience Maine’s colorfulautumns. In fall, as it comes to fruition,the life cycle assumes a special glow.— David FytenJUNE 2008 49

Latin lover‘Andy’ Andronica looks back on a life of doing what the Romans didand as one to whom it was all Greek.OR JOHN ANDRONICA, the pas-of years has been occhiata Fsagedalla finestra—a “glance out the window,”as the Italians would say. Fittinghe should choose an Italian expressionas he reflects upon his long—but tohim, all too brief— tenure as professorand chair of classical languages. Notonly was he born of Italian lineage, hewas literally raised to study and teachLatin, Greek, and the glories of ancientMediterranean civilizations.“Andy” (as everybody, includinghimself, calls him) is using the occasionof his retirement this spring towatch the passing of a veritable GrandCanal of memories. From the eveningin 1971 when famed American expatriatepoet Ezra Pound, just monthsfrom his death, sat in Wake Forest’snewly acquired house in Venice watchinga traveling British theatrical troupeperform three one-act plays by HaroldPinter; to the student whose researchinto the species of snake that mighthave killed Cleopatra impressed thecommittee that was reviewing hermedical school application; the recollections,when listened to, assume akind of autumnal hue evocative of theunique light that bathes his belovedcity of canals.Andy was born and raised in theBoston area, and he remains a prototypicalNew Englander in manyrespects, still possessing that distinctiveaccent that makes no distinctionbetween a pair of tan slacks and theunlocking devices with which onestarts an automobile. But in mostrespects he has become an inveterateSoutherner, especially in his embraceof Wake Forest’s traditions and its cultureof graciousness and collegiality.From elementary school throughhigh school, Andy attended BostonLatin, known widely for its rigorousclassical curriculum. He began studyingLatin in the sixth grade and Greekin the ninth, and “when I was eleven,twelve, or thirteen and thought theremight be something better to do thandeclensions and conjugations, my parentsthought otherwise.”After graduation he enrolled at HolyCross, a Jesuit college in Worcester sotraditional that chapel attendance wasstill compulsory. For two years he wasa pre-med student, all the while continuinghis classical languages studies.“I guess you could say I backed intoan academic career. I loved Latin andGreek and thought there surely wouldbe people out there who would beinterested in the same things.”After completing a master’s degreeat Boston College and a doctorate atJohns Hopkins University, Andy soughta teaching job at a small liberal artscollege that valued classical studies.In 1969 he joined Wake Forest’s classicallanguages department, then headedby Carl Harris and the venerable CronjeEarp (’26). Much to his surprise threeyears later, he was appointed as chairwhile concurrently being asked todirect the first year of studies at aVenetian palazzo—soon to be namedCasa Artom—that had housed theU.S. Consulate and was being transferredto the University.“I still recall that year in vividdetail,” Andy says. “The day we [he,wife Grace, and their two small children]returned to Venice after theChristmas holidays, the place waslocked and bolted from the inside,with no access otherwise. We calledthe local caretaker, a holdover fromthe American Consulate days, whohad to climb a ladder and scale a gardenwall to let us in.”Besides Pound, the memorable personalitiesthey encountered that inauguralyear included next door neighborPeggy Guggenheim, the eccentricheiress and art patron whose oddhabits and behaviors made for manymoments of amusement as well asconsternation. Then there was thehouse’s oil furnace, which rarelyworked. Students scavenged woodencrates from the fruit and vegetablemarkets, which they would burn inthe fireplace to stay warm.“The students couldn’t speak Italian,so Grace [who, like Andy, is ofItalian extraction] taught it to themon a not-for-credit basis,” Andy recalls.“But I’ll tell you: not one of the studentsthat year left as the same personhe or she was when they arrived.They had the wonderful experienceof living and studying abroad, and50 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

the challenges they faced and the fixesthey got into and had to get out of ontheir own allowed them to grow andmature beyond their years.”Despite—or perhaps because of—those initial challenges, Andy adoresCasa Artom and Venice. He hasreturned four times in an official capacity—threetimes as director andonce to oversee the transition of asummer program for the law schoolin 2000. And despite—or, again,because of—the challenges of chairinga department as a junior faculty memberand the lack of course load reductionsthat chairs of larger departmentstypically enjoyed, he has directedthe department for twenty-eight of histhirty-nine years at the University.The classical languages departmenttoday has four tenured faculty membersin Latin and Greek plus a fifth nontenuredmember who teaches Arabic ina new program administered by thedepartment. Andy can recount a wealthof anecdotes about the many exceptionalstudents he’s had over the years.One of his favorite stories is about ayoung woman who enrolled in hisfirst-year seminar on Cleopatra andbecame intrigued by the mystifyingcircumstances surrounding the queen’sdeath. The student did some originalresearch and postulated the type ofvenomous snake that might have killedthe Queen of the Nile. Later, she madea favorable impression by recountingher findings to a committee that wasinterviewing her for admission to itsmedical school. Not coincidentally,perhaps, she was accepted.One might surmise that attraction toclassical languages and studies wouldbe waning in this age of the here andnow, but Andy says the opposite is thecase. “We have approximately thirtystudents who are majors or minorscompared with the five or six majorswe had when I first arrived,” he says.“At that time many of the majors wereinterested in a teaching career, but todaymost are looking toward careers in oneof the health professions or anotherprofession. All, though, are drawn tothe challenge and opportunity toengage in ongoing dialogue with thegreat minds and issues of the past inways that might not be possible otherwise.We have wonderful students, andthe caliber of applicants Wake Forestattracts in general means that manycome with backgrounds and interestsin Latin, Greek, and classical studies.”Andy is skilled in virtually all of theconstruction trades—carpentry, electricalwork, plumbing, you name it—and he intends to put them to use as aHabitat for Humanity volunteer inretirement. He and Grace (who wasthe real estate agent for more than afew arriving and departing membersof the faculty and staff over the years)plan to do a lot of traveling as well.It seems an altogether fitting coda tothe life of one so conversant with thebuilding and spreading of Westerncivilization’s noblest institutions andaspirations. Docere est discere: studiumpermanet—“To teach is to learn: thepursuit remains constant.”—David FytenJUNE 2008 51

Setting the standardBill Kerr raised the bar for physics students and his department.VER THE COURSE OF HIS LONGOteaching career, Professor ofPhysics W.C. “Bill” Kerr estimates thathe must have taught Maxwell’s equationsto several hundred students. Andhe hopes that at least a few of themremembered the equations long afterthey left his class. If not, they will surelyremember the day their professor—whose buttoned-downed, reserveddemeanor belies his witty sense ofhumor—pulled what he calls his “act.”“I have a T-shirt with Maxwell’sequations on it, and when we got tothat in the class, I would wear the T-shirt to class under my dress shirt andtie,” he says. “About halfway throughthe lecture, I would do a ‘striptease’ byremoving my shirt and tie to displaythe T-shirt. I wanted to do somethingdramatic to emphasize the scientificsynthesis they had just seen: all ofclassical electricity, magnetism, andoptics described by four equations thatfit on a T-shirt. I hope some of themremember it.”Kerr is hanging up his T-shirt afterteaching at Wake Forest for thirty-eightyears. If not his T-shirt, he’ll undoubtedlybe remembered for his immeasurablecontributions to the stellar reputationof the physics department andto the lives of the students who havecome through the department.“Bill Kerr changed my life throughhis accessibility, patience, and unflagginggood nature,” said one of his formerstudents, Kathy Meiburg Whatley(’77, P ’11), who was recently namedprovost of Berry College in Georgia.“He was my finest role model, and Ibecame determined to someday be thenext generation’s Dr. Kerr. Over theyears I came to realize what a trulydedicated and amazing professor heis. He is a world-class scientist, whoalways had time for a question from alowly sophomore or a fellow professor.”Most students who have comethrough the physics program havecome to know Kerr well; for the lastsixteen years, he has been the undergraduateadvisor for physics majors.He regularly taught an undergraduateclass called “Modern Physics,” in whichstudents encountered new ideas fromrelativity and quantum mechanics for52 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

the first time, and a graduate classon “Solid State Physics.” For the lasttwenty-five years, he has been the onlyfaculty member to teach the graduateclass on “Statistical Mechanics.” Hisinfluence has been felt by colleaguesas well. “He has always imposed highstandards on himself and has helpedmaintain high standards for the physicsprogram at Wake Forest throughouthis career,” said Professor and Chairof Physics Keith Bonin.Kerr will be moving out of histhird-floor office in Olin PhysicalLaboratory this summer, but he willstill have a desk in the building andplans to continue his research. He sayshe’ll miss the regular interaction withstudents. “We have always had goodstudents,” he says. “And the growth ofthe department over the last fifteenyears has been quite exciting, especiallyafter we moved into this building (in1989). It gave us opportunities to domore things.”A native of the small town of Carrollton,Ohio, Kerr majored in physicsand mathematics at The College ofWooster, where he met his future wife,Sandria, during freshman orientation.He won a Woodrow Wilson GraduateFellowship and used it to attend CornellUniversity, where he obtained his Ph.D.in theoretical physics. He had postdoctoralpositions as a research assistantat the Institute for TheoreticalPhysics, Chalmers University of Technologyin Goteborg, Sweden, and atthe Argonne National Laboratory outsideChicago.While attending a meeting of theAmerican Physical Society in Washington,D.C., he met Tommy Turner, thenchair of Wake Forest’s physics department,and professor Howard Shields.Turner eventually offered him a threeyearappointment, and in 1970 hebecame the sixth member of the physicsfaculty, which also included BobBrehme, Jack Williams, and YsbandHaven. (Shields, Brehme, and Williamsall enjoyed long careers at Wake Forest.)The department shared space with thechemistry department in Salem Hall.That three-year appointment turnedinto a lifetime. Since then the departmenthas grown to fifteen faculty membersand moved into new quarters inOlin Physical Laboratory. Kerr was oneof the first faculty members in thedepartment, along with Professor ofPhysics Natalie Holzwarth and formerdepartment chair Rick Matthews, nowassociate provost for information systems,to push for high-performancecomputing, vital for cutting-edgeresearch. Their first attempt to getexternal funding failed, but the Universityagreed to spend the promisedmatching funds to buy a computeranyway. That support was the seedfrom which the department’s currentextensive effort in high performancecomputing grew.Kerr’s own research has focused ontheoretical solid state and statisticalphysics. “I was pretty free to pursuewhatever I wanted to pursue,” he says.“All the (department) chairmen havebeen very supportive, and we all getalong very well in the department.”He has spent numerous summersas a visiting scientist at Los AlamosNational Laboratory in New Mexico,which is also one of his favorite spotsfor hiking. (He spends one or twoweeks every summer hiking in NewMexico, New York, or New Hampshire.)He spent a year at Los Alamosin the mid-1980s and again in themid-1990s on research leaves and ayear at the University of Paris, inOrsay, France, in the mid-1970s.Kerr and his wife have lived onFaculty Drive since 1978. Sandria Kerr,who taught mathematics and thencomputer science at Winston-SalemState University, also retired this summer.They are planning to travel more—a trip to Alaska is already plannedfor August—and to spend more timewith their two daughters, who both livein New Jersey, and four grandchildren.Whatley still recalls a class dinnerat the Kerrs’ home and the influencethat Sandria Kerr, as well as Bill Kerr,had on her life. “Mrs. Dr. Kerr, as wecalled her, was the first female scientistrole model I had, and proved that onecould have a career as a faculty memberand sustain a family,” she said.Kerr is a regular at Winston-SalemSymphony and Piedmont Opera productionsand hopes to resume playingthe piano now that he’s retiring. Healso hopes to still get together withhis lunch gang in the Pit in ReynoldaHall, friends from other departmentsdrawn together partly by their loveof music—David Levy from music,Ellen Kirkman from math, Pete Weiglfrom biology, and retired communicationprofessor Jill McMillan, amongothers. His love of desserts is legendary,friends say. Kerr offers that thePit’s all-you-can-eat plan is a gooddeal, although the serious scientistin him worries about the wisdomof the “all-you-can-eat” part, beforehis playful nature kicks in: “I alwayshave dessert.”—Kerry M. King (’85)JUNE 2008 53

P R O F I L ELaw and MBA student Jamie Dean (’05) and his rowing partner, Andy Trafford (’07), train on Salem Lake.Stroke of brillianceNo stranger to success, Jamie Dean (’05) goes after a Paralympic gold medal.By Karilon L. RogersEWER THAN FOUR SECONDSFstand between Law and MBAstudent Jamie Dean (’05) and a placeatop the world podium; 3.94 secondsover 1,000 meters to be exact. Thatwas the margin of victory for Germany’sfirst-place “adaptive four withcoxswain” rowing crew over Dean’sfifth-place U.S. squad at the 2007World Rowing Championships inMunich. And that’s the margin Deanand his teammates fully intend tostroke into oblivion when they meetGermany again—this time in Beijingat the Summer Paralympics. Itwill be the first time that rowing isincluded as a Paralympic sport.“World competition has beenvery tight,” says Dean, who got hisstart in rowing as a freshman atWake Forest. “We were six secondsfaster than the year before but stillcame in fifth. Our goal is to win thefirst gold medal in Paralympic rowing.We have an underdog attitudethat gives us motivation.”If Dean’s past results are any predictorof success, his team is very likelyto achieve its goal. As national coachKaren Lewis emphasizes, “In the lastworld championships we were onlyfour seconds away from gold. The teamhas increased their training, and weare hoping to make it onto the medalstand. It is all about who wants it themost, and I know that Jamie does.”The games get underway September6 in Beijing’s Olympic stadium,three weeks after closing ceremoniesof the XXIX Olympiad. Four thousandworld-class athletes with a disability,from 150 nations, are expectedto compete in 20 summer sports.Dean’s disability is blindness; hesuffers from a hereditary conditioncalled retinitis pigmentosa. Partiallysighted as a young child, his visionhas slowly diminished to its currentstate, which he describes as “lookingthrough a needle-hole in a piece ofpaper” with one eye and seeing onlyshades of lightness and darknesswith the other. One of his teammatesin the two men/two women eventshares his sightlessness; another hascerebral palsy, while the fourth is aleg amputee. All are accomplished54 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

athletes who rowed mainstream duringtheir college years.While Dean has no choice but tolive with his disability, he has neverallowed it to become a liability. Nordoes he want it to be an asset. “Peoplewith disabilities too often are eitherignored or given way too much attention,”he said. “You start to doubtyourself….You wonder, ‘Do I reallyhave what it takes?’ Rowing is basedon merit. It is extremely empirical.You know if the boat goes faster.”Dean’s boat does, indeed, go faster.According to Lewis, he prepares withintensity and has great athletic gifts.Teammate Aerial Gilbert describeshim as a tenacious and hard-workingcompetitor who also is a true teamplayer. “His training with WakeForest gave him the base with whichhe has continued to work,” Lewissays, adding, “He is highly motivatedand spreads that through the crew.His enthusiasm and passion for thesport are contagious.”Dean has exhibited a similar attitudethroughout his entire career atWake Forest. Named a Mullen Scholaras a sophomore, he earned his undergraduatedegree in economics summacum laude and was inducted intoPhi Beta Kappa as a junior and theMortar Board National Honor Societyas a senior. A popular leader, heserved on the Honor Council and asa student trustee, a role that earnedhim a position on the presidentialsearch committee that led to theselection of Nathan O. Hatch. Healso helped establish a disabilityawareness group.Dean plans a career in law andnow is entering the fourth year ofthe dual JD/MBA program, in whichhe has continued to find success. Inaddition to receiving a faculty scholarshipfor the MBA portion of theprogram, he is a Fletcher Scholar.Each year, only two incoming lawstudents receive this merit-basedaward that includes full tuition. Deanalso is an editor on the Law Reviewand a member of Moot Court.“Now, I’m even morepassionate … [and] morehumble because humilityhas been modeled for meby college leaders.Now I believe that Imust distinguish myselfby what I do.”Michael Green, Williams Professorof Law, is impressed with whathe describes as Dean’s first-rate mind,maturity, and quiet self-assurance.“I am amazed at his ability to understandand deal with difficult conceptswithout visualizing them,” Green said.“I’m also amazed at his maturity… in terms of what he wants to doand how he goes about doing it.His sophistication blows me away.”Surprisingly, Dean finds the studyof law easier in some ways than thework required for his undergraduatedegree, even as he prepares for theParalympics. He explains that his“great equalizer”—his laptop—isable to read electronic documents tohim, and all law research materialsare readily available online. The chartsand graphs common to economicswere more difficult for him, eventhough the faculty “really went outof the way to make them accessible.”Dean plans to go into corporatelitigation but also has a deep interestin international prosecution andhopes to find ways to focus on internationalhuman rights in his probono work. While he’s not exactlysure what his future holds, he hasfaith he’ll end up where God wantshim. “You’ve got to walk throughdoors that are open,” he says, “ratherthan always banging your head onthose that are closed.”He begins his last year at WakeForest in new personal circumstances;he was married June 7 toLauren Brown, a graduate studentat the Divinity School. While hedoes some public speaking relatedto disability awareness, Dean says itis Lauren who is “very interested indisability advocacy and the one whowill likely make a future out of it.”Declaring his attendance at WakeForest to be “totally random,” precipitatedby a chance meeting withan acquaintance with an extra applicationin hand, Dean maintains thatit has dramatically shaped his life.“Coming out of high school, I wasvery passionate but not very polished,”he says. “Now, I’m even morepassionate but have learned toappropriately channel that fire foreach situation. I’m now more humblebecause humility has been modeledfor me by college leaders. NowI believe that I must distinguishmyself by what I do.”Karilon Rogers is a freelance writerbased in Clemmons, North Carolina.P R O F I L EJUNE 2008 55

W AKE F OREST A LUMNI A SSOCIATIONPresident’s ColumnGreetings, fellow Deacons! In my final President’s Column, I want to bringyou up to date on some of the great work that has been done on behalf ofthe Alumni Association these past three years.Every single person who graduates from Wake Forest is automatically grantedmembership in the Alumni Association. The purpose of the Alumni Association isto develop from alumni—and alumni-related constituencies—the moral, financial,and volunteer support necessary to enable Wake Forest to achieve its greatermission: “…to be a place where a vibrant and diverse learning community wedsknowledge, experiences and service that lift the human spirit.”The Alumni Council serves as the official representatives of the AlumniAssociation and serves as liaisons between alumni everywhere and Wake Forest.We work for you. And to ensure that we are providing programs and servicesthat matter the most to alumni, the Alumni Council embarked on an ambitiousexercise—the creation of a strategic plan for the Alumni Association. In 2005 weintroduced the plan, which sought to create additional value for alumni in theareas of career services, clubs, lifelong learning, and to the University through itsannual funds. We put this plan into place and through the hard work of thealumni, the Alumni Council and the staff of the alumni office, we have donesome great things together these past three years.Here are the goals of the Alumni Council strategic plan and the progresstoward those goals:C L A S S N O T E SPartner with Career Services to expand career assistance for alumni.• The Wake Forest Clubs program implemented a Monthly NetworkingLuncheon series, which has become a staple of the Clubs program. Don’t havethem in your area? Get involved with your local Wake Forest Club and we canhelp you get started.• We also have held Networking Forums (for students and alumni) and areexpanding these to include more cities.• We now have a dedicated alumni office staff member who works withcareer services to develop alumni career services. As part of this role, weare maintaining a database of alumni recruiters in all industries.Increase overall participation in and success of the Wake Forest Clubs program.• The Alumni Council reviewed the Wake Forest Clubs program and determinedthat clubs are most successful when there is a dedicated executivecommittee that plans events. Executive committees have been formed in 15cities and this is the model we want to use for all clubs.• With the help of strong club executive committees, we had a 25% increasein the number of events held in metro club areas.Implement a comprehensive Lifelong Learning program.• We piloted two-day courses in June 2006 and 2007, as well as shorter coursesin conjunction with Founders’ Day. A third two-day course is scheduled forJune 2008 and a shorter course is planned for September 2008.• Because of the great interest in expanding Lifelong Learning, there is now adedicated alumni office staff member who will be charged with developingthis as a major program.www.wfu.edu/alumni JUNE 2008 57

Develop a proposal for an Alumni Center and secure Wake Forest University’s support and an approvedspace.• Following a survey of peer schools, it was determined that most top-level alumni offices have either theirown dedicated building or a very public space.• With University support, the alumni office was relocated from the third floor of Reynolda Hall to amuch more public suite on the second floor (room 230, closest to Kitchin Hall).• Once the Visual Identity project is complete, we have asked for Quad-level signage to direct alumnito the location of the alumni office.Raise alumni participation in the College Fund by 5% annually through 2007-2008.• At the close of fiscal year 2006-07, the College Fund was up $360,516 (10%) from 2005-06.Alumni donors to the College Fund increased by 706 (8%) from 2005-06.• We are counting on you to help us reach our alumni participation goals for the College Fund for2007-08. If you have not yet made your gift, please do so today at www.wfu.edu/giving.• The size of the gift is important…important to you as well as to the University. The amount is apersonal decision, but please give something to show your support for our school. Alumni participationis vital to many ongoing concerns of our University, so again, please make a gift. Thank you!I want to thank the past presidents of the Alumni Council who led us through the beginning of thestrategic planning process and who have advocated so strongly for the needs of Wake Forest alumni. I alsowant to introduce Kim Shirley (’85) of Raleigh as our next Alumni Association president, whose termbegins in July. Kim has been a loyal and dedicated alumna and volunteer, and I wish her great success asshe begins her presidency.Thank you for allowing me to serve you as Alumni Association president this past year. We have manymiles to go, yet we have traversed just as many miles and accomplished some measurable and importantmilestones. With alumni like you, we can go the distance and help shape Wake Forest into her level best.Go Deacs!Rod Webb (‘92)Alumni Association President58 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Submitting a Classnote?Wake Forest Magazine welcomes CLASSNOTES submissions from alumni. There are three waysto submit information:Standard mail: CLASSNOTES editor, Wake Forest Magazine, P.O. Box 7205, Winston-Salem,NC 27109-7205.E-mail: classnotes@wfu.eduOnline: www.wfu.edu/magazine/classnotesSubmissions guidelines:• Please include your class year(s) and degree(s) with each submission.• Please include a telephone number and e-mail address so that we may verify the information.• Because of space considerations we are able to accept individual head shots only.Photos must be at least 2x3 inches at 300 pixels per inch (600x900 pixels).• Person submitting the item assumes responsibility for its accuracy.• Submissions may be edited for length and clarity.• We’re sorry, but we cannot accept items submitted by a third party.Deadlines:• The deadline for CLASSNOTES submissions is the 15th day of the month two months priorto the issue date. For example, the deadline for the September issue is July 15.1940sArchie R. Ammons (’49), who died in2001, is the subject of a biography beingwritten by Roger Gilbert. Gilbert wouldlove to hear from alumni who knewArchie and are willing to share theirmemories, as well as from students ofBudd Smith, one of Archie’s favoriteteachers in the 1940s and 1950s. He canbe reached at rsg2@cornell.edu.1950s1960sFred S. Black (’60, JD ’62) has ageneral law practice in Halifax,VA. Hehas practiced law in South Boston,VA,and Halifax county since 1962. He andhis wife, Bettie Belle, reside in Halifax.Mary Hendricks Hitchcock (’60)would like to invite all former membersof Wake Forest Baptist Church(www.wakeforestbaptistchurch.org) inWake Forest, NC, to attend a homecomingworship and luncheon on Oct. 5, 2008.STEPHENSON (’60) HOGEWOOD (’61, JD ’63)Len Chappell (’62), who led WakeForest to its only NCAA Final Fourappearance, was recognized at the ACCLegends ceremony during the ACCTournament in March.Donald M. Duncan (’62) had asuccessful career in the U.S. Air Forcewith tours in Vietnam, Thailand, Korea,Germany and the U.S. He and his familysettled in Texas. He can be reached atlightngblu@aol.com.Diana Gilliland Wright (’63) receiveda grant from the National Endowmentfor the Humanities to work on a book on15th century Greece at the AmericanSchool of Classical Studies in Athens.John Gerlach (MS ’64) is the managerof professional development at MassMutual Life Insurance Co. in Greensboro,NC. He received the professional designation,Chartered Advisor for SeniorLiving, from The American College inBryn Mawr, PA.Ray K. Hodge (’50) is a retired Baptistminister and Wake Forest trustee emeritusliving in Smithfield, NC. Since retirement,he has served as interim pastor at nineBaptist churches, served as a Hospicechaplain, and spent time traveling andwriting. He has published three books:“Big Memories of a Little Town” (2004),“Milestones for Christian Living” (2007),and “Hodgepodge” (2008), a collection ofmonthly columns published in theSmithfield Herald over the past 12 years.More information can be found atrayhodge.com.Charles T. Lane (’54, JD ’56) is withPoyner & Spruill LLP in Rocky Mount,NC. He received the Rocky MountChamber of Commerce DistinguishedCitizen Award.Russell L. Stephenson Jr. (’60,P ’90, ’91, ’96, ’97) is chairman andchief executive officer of StephensonMillwork Co. in Wilson, NC. He waselected chair of the Barton College boardof trustees. He and his wife, SusanYates Stephenson (’69), live inRaleigh, NC.Ashley L. Hogewood Jr. (’61, JD ’63,P ’90, ’93) is with Parker Poe Adams &Bernstein LLP in Charlotte, NC. He hasbeen recognized as a “North CarolinaSuper Lawyer” by Law & Politics magazineand named one of the “BestLawyers in America” for real estate law.Manning L. Smith (’64) retired asrector of St. James Episcopal Church inWesternport, MD, and was named rectoremeritus. He and his wife, Katharine, areenjoying retirement and their five grandchildren,and are planning a driving tripto Alaska from their home in MountainLake Park, MD.J. Donald Cowan Jr. (’65, JD ’68,P ’94) is a senior partner of SmithMoore LLP in Greensboro, NC, and anadjunct professor of trial practice atDuke University School of Law. He isalso a fellow and regent of the AmericanCollege of Trial Lawyers and a WakeForest trustee. He received the 2008 ProBono Award from the Greensboro BarAssociation.www.wfu.edu/alumni JUNE 2008 59

GERLACH (MS ’64) COWAN (’65, JD ’68) PIERCY (’69) JUSTICE (JD ’70)CAMPEN (’71)POE (’71, JD ’74)Kathleen “Kitty” Harmon Kesler(’68) and her husband, Gene, built ahouse near Holden Beach, NC. For ninemonths they traveled all over the U.S.,and she hopes to write a book aboutthose travels. They have a daughter inMaryland, a son in Washington, D.C.,and two grandsons.Fred P. Piercy (’69) is a professor andhead of the department of human developmentin the College of Liberal Artsand Human Sciences at Virginia Tech. Hereceived the Outstanding Contribution toMarriage and Family Therapy Awardfrom the American Association forMarriage and Family Therapy.Douglas S. Punger (’69, JD ’72,P ’06) retired in 2006 after 33 years asgeneral counsel to the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools. After a year off,he returned to practice law. He is ofcounsel to Faw Folger & Johnson PC inMount Airy, NC, counsel to the DavieCounty Board of Education and adjunctprofessor of educational law at the WakeForest School of Law.1970sMax E. Justice (JD ’70, P ’99) is withParker Poe Adams and Bernstein LLP inCharlotte, NC. He has been named oneof the “Best Lawyers in America” inenvironmental law.Henry C. Campen Jr. (’71, P ’06) hasbeen re-elected to the board of directorsand is a managing partner of Parker PoeAdams & Bernstein LLP in Raleigh, NC.He has been named one of the “BestLawyers in America” in communicationslaw.W. Edward Poe Jr. (’71, JD ’74) iswith Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLPin Charlotte, NC. He has been namedone of the “Best Lawyers in America” inenergy law.Cary D. McCormack (’72, P ’01, ’04)has been appointed director of businessdevelopment for NJSchoolJobs.com inManahawkin, NJ.D. Clark Smith Jr. (’72, JD ’75) is theimmediate past president of the N.C. BarAssociation. He is a new partner in thelitigation practice group of Smith MooreLLP in Greensboro, NC.Catharine B. Arrowood (’73, JD ’76,P ’05) is with Parker Poe Adams &Bernstein LLP in Raleigh, NC. She hasbeen recognized as a “North CarolinaSuper Lawyer” for business litigation byLaw & Politics magazine. She was namedone of the “Best Lawyers in America”for alternative dispute resolution, betthe-companyand commercial litigation.Celia Hooper (’73), professor ofcommunication sciences and disorders atthe University of North Carolina atGreensboro, has been named dean of theSchool of Health and Human Performance.Steve Ashworth (’74) is senior vicepresident and partner for WachoviaWealth Management in Winston-Salem,NC. He has been named a top wealthadvisor by Worth magazine.Beth Martin-Prevost (’74) is aprogram sales consultant with Insights inCorvallis, OR. She married Peter Fierroin 2006.John A. Yingling (’74) is a majorgeneral in the U.S. Army. He is theoperations officer for the U.S. ForcesCommand, Atlanta, responsible for operations,planning, training, mobilizationand deployment of all forces within theU.S.Harvey L. Cosper Jr. (JD ’75) is withParker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP inCharlotte, NC. He has been recognizedas a “North Carolina Super Lawyer” formedical personal injury defense by Law& Politics magazine. He was named oneof the “Best Lawyers in America” inmedical and professional malpractice lawand personal injury litigation.Richard DeWitte Sparkman (JD ’75,P ’99) practices bankruptcy law inAngier, NC. He has been named a“North Carolina Super Lawyer.”Reginald F. Combs (’76, JD ’78) hasopened a general practice in Winston-Salem, NC. His concentration is civil litigationand dispute resolution on behalfof businesses and their operators.Joslin Davis (JD ’77) is a shareholderof Davis & Harwell PA in Winston-Salem.She has been named one of NorthCarolina’s top 100 lawyers and a “SuperLawyer” in family law.James K. Dorsett III (JD ’77) is apartner in commercial litigation withSmith Anderson Blount Dorsett Mitchell& Jernigan LLP in Raleigh, NC. He is a fellowin the Litigation Counsel of Americaand treasurer of the International Societyof Barristers Foundation.Katherine Meiburg Whatley (’77,P ’11) is provost of Berry College inRome, GA.60 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

HOOPER (’73)ASHWORTH (’74)COSPER (JD ’75) COMBS (’76, JD ’78) DAVIS (JD ’77) GARDNER (’78, JD ’81)E. Thornton Edwards Jr. (’78) ischairman of the Guilford County HistoricPreservation Commission. He lives inGreensboro, NC.Terri L. Gardner (’78, JD ’81) hasbeen named a partner of Nelson MullinsRiley & Scarborough LLP in Raleigh, NC.She is one of Business North Carolina’s“Legal Elite” in bankruptcy law. Shereceived the 2008 James E. CrossLeadership Award from the N.C. StateBar Board of Legal Specialization.Susanna Knutson Gibbons (’78,JD ’81) is with Poyner & Spruill LLP inRaleigh, NC. She has been named one ofBusiness North Carolina’s “Legal Elite” inemployment law.John Nelms (’78) celebrated his 30thanniversary with State Farm Insurance,the last 26 years in Winston-Salem, NC.He and his wife, Debbie, will travel toRiviera Maya on his 24th Life AmbassadorTravel Trip.Dennis A. Wicker (JD ’78) is a partnerwith Helms Mullis & Wicker PLLC inRaleigh, NC. He has been selected aTriangle area “Impact Business Leader”for 2008 by Business Leader magazine.John H. Frank (MBA ’79) is directorof the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust.He received the 2008 Ronald H. LevineLegacy Award for Public Health from theN.C. Department of Health and HumanResources.1980sHoward L. Borum (JD ’80, P ’08) iswith Carruthers & Roth PA in Greensboro,NC. He was named a “North CarolinaSuper Lawyer” in real estate law.Jorge A. Font (’80, P ’11) is a seniorvice president with Aon Consulting inSugar Land, TX. He has been electedpresident of the board of the SouthwestBenefits Association. He and his wife,Mary, have two sons, Stephen (17) andCarswell Scholar Michael (’11).Christopher R. Gambill (’80)completed his PhD in industrialorganizationalpsychology from CapellaUniversity. His dissertation topic was“Emotional Intelligence and ConflictManagement Style Among ChristianClergy.”Thomas N. Griffin III (’80, P ’08) iswith Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLPin Charlotte, NC. He has been recognizedas a “North Carolina SuperLawyer” by Law & Politics magazine andnamed one of the “Best Lawyers inAmerica” in environmental law.Jacob Andrew Hartsfield IV (JD ’80)has been appointed to the board oftrustees of Elizabeth City StateUniversity in Elizabeth City, NC.Jeff MacIntosh (’80) is a sales associatewith Leonard Ryden Burr Real Estate inWinston-Salem, NC.Jerry T. Myers (’80, JD ’84) is withSmith Debnam Narron Wyche Saintsing& Myers LLP in Raleigh, NC. He is onthe board of directors of the AmericanBoard of Certification. Also serving on theboard are Terri Gardner (’78, JD ’81)and Bettie Sousa (JD ’81, P ’10).James E. “Jim” Womble Jr. (’80) is aSouthern region sales manager forLiberty Mutual Insurance Co. of Bostonand has been named the 2007 RegionalSales Manager of the Year. He and hiswife, Ann Bryan, live in Marietta, GA.They have two daughters, Katherine andAshley. He is the son of James E.Womble (’57) and Barbara AvardWomble (’59).David M. Warren (’81, JD ’84) is withPoyner & Spruill LLP in Raleigh andRocky Mount, NC. He has been namedone of Business North Carolina’s “LegalElite” in bankruptcy law.Jennifer Early Calvert (’82) appearedon a cable TV show in Indiana, the“Harvest Show,” to discuss her book,“BFFs: Best Friends Forever.”J. Hayden Harrell (’82, JD ’85) is apartner with Katten Muchin RosemanLLP in Charlotte, NC. He has beennamed one of the “Best Lawyers inAmerica.”Kenneth M. Norton (MBA ’82)co-authored a paper, “The Effects ofCultural Differences on KnowledgeAssets and U.S. MNCs’ Firm Value,”which was accepted for presentation atthe annual meeting of the Academy ofInternational Business in Milan, Italy.Mary Tribble (’82) is founder andpresident of Tribble Creative Group inCharlotte, NC. She was honored as a“Green Business Leader” at CharlotteBusiness Journal’s inaugural GreenAwards.John W. Graham (’83) is deputy directorof Guilford Child Development inGreensboro, NC.www.wfu.edu/alumni JUNE 2008 61

BORUM (JD ’80)GRIFFIN (’80)MACINTOSH (’80) GRELLA (JD ’85) MARTINEZ (’85) POWELL (JD ’85)Rick Fuller (’84) is a pediatrician forthe Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin.He and his wife, Carol, have four children,Sam (12), Kevin (9), Benjamin (6)and Madelyn (5). They live in De Pere, WI.Suzanne Moyers (’84) is writing hersecond book, a novel for middle-graders,for Mondo Publishing. She and her husbandEdward, son Jassi, and daughterSaraJane, live in Montclair, NJ.Thomas C. Grella (JD ’85) iswith McGuire Wood & Bissette PA inAsheville, NC. He was elected a fellow ofThe College of Law Practice Managementand will be formally inducted into thecollege’s fellowship in September inChicago.Debi Coltrane Martinez (’85) isan assistant principal at East BendElementary School in East Bend, NC.She received the 2008 NCAE AssistantPrincipal of the Year Award from theN.C. Association of Educators.H. David Powell (JD ’85) is withHorack Talley Pharr & Lowndes inCharlotte, NC. He has been named oneof Business North Carolina’s “Legal Elite.”John Babcock (JD ’86) is a partnerwith Wall Esleeck Babcock LLP inWinston-Salem, NC. He has been nameda “Super Lawyer” in business/corporatetax by Law & Politics magazine.J. Nicholas Ellis (JD ’86) is withPoyner & Spruill LLP in Raleigh, NC. Hehas been named one of Business NorthCarolina’s “Legal Elite” in litigation.H. Russell Holland III (’86) is executivevice president and chief bankingofficer at Seacoast National Bank inStuart, FL.Graham H. Kidner (JD ’86, P ’08)came across a photo made at his graduationon May 19, 1986, with his 2-year-oldson and his wife,Vickie, who was ninemonthspregnant with their daughter.Twenty-two years later, also on May 19,that daughter, Devin Britanne (’08),graduated from Wake Forest.Elizabeth M. Repetti (JD ’86) is anattorney and director of Bell Davis & PittPA in Winston-Salem, NC. She wasselected by the bankruptcy section of theN.C. Bar Association to lead its statewideoffering of NC CARES, the Credit AbuseResistance Education Seminar. This projectfocuses on college freshmen to helpthem avoid pitfalls that could lead tobankruptcy.Kimberly H. Stogner (’86, JD ’94) iswith Vaughn Perkinson Ehlinger Moxley& Stogner in Winston-Salem, NC. Shewas named one of Business NorthCarolina’s “Legal Elite.”Michael S. Kennedy (’87) has beennamed principal of Gardners ElementarySchool in Elm City, NC.Ernie Osborn (’87) is a financialadvisor with the Osborn-Berrier Groupat Smith Barney in Winston-Salem, NC.He has been selected to Smith Barney’sdirectors council.Gail L. Fuller (’88) is director ofcommunications for the RockefellerBrothers Fund in New York.Tracey Nicoll Pate (’88) is managingpartner of Disability Associates LLC inBaltimore. She and her husband,Michael, have two daughters, Caroline(11) and Mary (7).Lance B. Sigmon (JD ’88, P ’11) is acandidate for the 10th District Congressionalseat in North Carolina. He and hiswife, Melissa Seagle Sigmon (’83),have a son, Kirk, at Wake Forest.R. Bruce Thompson II (’88, JD ’94)is with Parker Poe Adams & BernsteinLLP in Raleigh, NC. He has been namedone of the “Best Lawyers in America” inland use and zoning law.Tom Marshburn (MD ’89) is an astronautwith NASA. He received his firstspaceflight assignment to launch in April2009 to the International Space Station.Jennifer Vladimir Shashaty (’89) hasa two-book contract with KensingtonPublishing Corp. under the pen name ofSarah Parr. Her first book, “Renegade,”is a historical romance novel scheduledto be released in December.1990Robert S. Blair (JD) is with HorackTalley Pharr & Lowndes in Charlotte,NC. He has been named one of BusinessNorth Carolina’s “Legal Elite.”John Gregory Francis Bonar is acampus minister at Ramona ConventSecondary School in southern California.He and his students have taken Christmasand Easter trips to London, Rome, Venice,Florence and the island of Patmos. Hewas one of 50 singers from the U.S. chosento participate in the first internationalBach Festival in Leipzig, Germany.When not seeking the perfect wave, hesings and cantors at the Cathedral of OurLady of the Angels in Los Angeles.62 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

HOLLAND (’86)STOGNER (’86, JD ’94)OSBORN (’87) FULLER (’88) THOMPSON (’88, JD ’94) BLAIR (JD ’90)Joseph B. Dempster Jr. (JD) is withPoyner & Spruill LLP in Raleigh, NC. Hehas been named one of Business NorthCarolina’s “Legal Elite” in business law.Elizabeth Hayes works for directorJonathan Demme and his productioncompany, Clinica Estetico, in New York.She is currently working on “HereToday,” to be released in the fall.John Norris has been named one of the“Top 40 Under 40” in the BirminghamBusiness Journal. He is managing directorin charge of trust and wealth managementat Oakworth Capital Bank. He andhis wife, Beth, daughter Annie (8), andson John (6), live in the Birmingham, AL,area.1991Kevin O’Neal Cokley is an associateprofessor in the department of educationalpsychology at The University ofTexas at Austin. He received the 2007Scholarship Award from the Associationof Black Psychologists. Diverse: Issues inHigher Education has named him one ofthe “10 Rising Stars of the Academy.”Paula L. Durst (JD) is with SpilmanThomas & Battle PLLC in Charleston,WV. She was named a leading lawyer inlitigation by Chambers USA.Stacy Hinson received her MD fromPennsylvania State University College ofMedicine. Her residency will begin inJuly at Baylor University Medical Centerin Dallas. She and her husband, Bruce,and their three children, Brittney (11),Ashley (8) and Bruce III (2), have relocatedto Plano, TX.Linda Donelan Langiotti is vicepresident, diabetes operations for CCSMedical, a national provider of medicalsupplies for chronic diseases. She andher husband, Kevin, and three children,Kyle (10), Alex (8) and Ella (2), live inTampa, FL.Kimberly Ward (JD) was appointed bythe governor and unanimously confirmedby the senate of Maryland toserve as a judge on the MarylandWorkers’ Compensation Commission.She is the first African-American femaleto serve in its 94-year history.1992Ursula Henninger (JD) is a partneron the tort litigation team of King &Spalding LLP in Charlotte, NC. Heroffice is in Charlotte, but she willcontinue to live in Winston-Salem.Eric Kerchner is executive directorof the Children’s Museum of Winston-Salem, NC.Marty Langley has finished theBeyonce World Tour and moved to LasVegas.Katherine “Kate” Pruden is anengagement manager with Workday, anon-demand enterprise business service,in Atlanta.Eric A. Surface has been named presidentof SWA Consulting Inc., a managementconsulting and personnel researchfirm, in Raleigh, NC. He is an adjunctassistant professor of psychology at N.C.State University, where he earned hisPhD in 2003. He presented papers at theSociety for Industrial and OrganizationalPsychology, the American PsychologyAssociation, and the American Councilon the Teaching of Foreign Languagesconferences in 2007. He recently coauthoredpublications in PersonnelPsychology (Dierdorff & Surface, 2007),Organization Research Methods (Thompson& Surface, 2007) and Human Performance(Dierdorff & Surface, 2008). He was thelead researcher on a study sponsored bythe U.S. Special Operations Commandinvestigating the efficacy of “TacticalIraqi,” a videogame designed to trainmilitary personnel to speak Iraqi dialectArabic in a mission context.Robert R. Thomas Jr. is a partner inthe certified public accountant firm ofHardison Chamberlain & Thomas PA inWilmington, NC.1993Scott A. Beatty is a stockholder inHenderson Franklin Starnes & Holt PAin Fort Myers, FL. His concentration is oncivil and commercial litigation.Robyn Adelaar Goodpasture openedSpaVa Premier Day Spa in 1998 in Salem,VA. She is expanding her business andopening a second SpaVa in Roanoke,VA.Bruce M. Jacobs (JD) is with SpilmanThomas & Battle PLLC in Charleston,WV. He was named a leading lawyer inlitigation by Chambers USA.Tamah Chesney Morant (’93) hasbeen named director of graduateprograms in economics at N.C. StateUniversity.Lauri E. Wilks (JD) is executive vicepresident of management and administrationfor Lowe’s Motor Speedway inConcord, NC. She was named the “2007Charlotte Businesswoman of the Year.”www.wfu.edu/alumni JUNE 2008 63

BEATTY (’93) OWEN (’97, JD ’00)1994Estelle “Stella” Cline Hung (MD ’00)is an adult psychiatrist in Greensboro, NC.Eric W. Iskra (JD) is with SpilmanThomas & Battle PLLC in Charleston,WV. She was named a leading lawyer inlabor and employment by Chambers USA.Karen Gilliam Raiford has moved herpractice to Tennessee Valley OB-GYNClinic in Huntsville, AL.Kristen Duplessie Ring (MAEd ’98)is director of the Multi-Sensory Academyof Practitioners Program at ForsythCountry Day School in Lewisville, NC.She was recognized as the conference“Coach of the Year” for the past two fieldhockey seasons.Joseph Zeszotarski (JD) is withPoyner & Spruill in Raleigh, NC. Hehas been named one of Business NorthCarolina’s “Legal Elite” in criminallitigation.1995Manning A. Connors (JD) is a partnerand member of the litigation practicegroup of Smith Moore LLP in Greensboro,NC. He has been named one ofTriad Business Journal’s “40 Under Forty.”Jay Dominick (MBA) is associateprovost and chief information officer atthe University of North Carolina atCharlotte.Russell Hubbard is corporate vicepresident, Japan, for SafeNet Inc. Helives in Tokyo.1997Bill Barrett (JD) is vice president,intellectual property at Advanced LiquidLogic Inc. in Research Triangle Park,NC. He published a book, “iProperty:Profiting from Ideas in an Age of GlobalInnovation” (Wiley & Sons).Thomas E. Ingram (MALS) isproject manager for the Piedmont TriadResearch Park, Wake Forest UniversityHealth Sciences. He has been appointedto the High Point University board oftrustees.Sarah Moore Johnson is an estateplanning attorney at Venable LLP inWashington, D.C. She has been selecteda 2008 Nolan Fellow of the American BarAssociation Section of Taxation.Jeffrey Owen (JD ’00) has beennamed a partner at McGuire Wood &Bissette PA in Asheville, NC.Tracey Abbott Reuter and herhusband, Alex, live in Dubai, UnitedArab Emirates. She is in managementconsulting with Bain & Co.Craig Andrew Robinson (MS) isan emergency physician at ChandlerRegional Medical Center and MercyGilbert Medical Center. He and his wife,Jessica Shick, live near Phoenix.1998Elizabeth Gordon is owner ofFlourishing Business, an adivsory firmfor entrepreneurs, in Atlanta. She publisheda book, “The Chic Entrepreneur:Put Your Business in Higher Heels”(Robert Reed Publishers, May 2008).Gregory David Habeeb (JD ’01) is apartner at Gentry Locke Rakes & MooreLLP in Roanoke,VA. His practice focusesprimarily on business, general and bodilyinjury litigation. He has been electedchairman of the Republican unit forSalem,VA. He and his wife, ChristyBrendle Habeeb (’00), live in Salemwith their two boys, Daniel (3) andWilliam (1).Shane Harris is publishing his firstbook, “The Watchmen” (Penguin Press).It is a narrative non-fiction tracing therise of key surveillance and counterterrorismprograms in the U.S. before andafter 9/11.Steven K. McCallister (JD) is on theboard of directors of the Women’s Centerof Wake County in Raleigh, NC. The centeris a nonprofit organization providingservices for low-income and homelesswomen and children.Dwayne Eric McClerklin completedhis residency in anesthesiology and iscompleting a fellowship in cardiovascularanesthesiology at Virginia CommonwealthUniversity Medical Center inRichmond,VA.Phillip Schmitz Moore (MD ’02) iscompleting his general surgery residencyat the Wake Forest University BaptistMedical Center. He has a vascular surgeryfellowship, also at Wake Forest.Daniel L. Stern co-wrote and produceda feature film, “This is a Business,”which has been released on DVD.(www.indiepixfilms.com/thisisabusiness)1999Eric Palmer was honorably dischargedafter nine years as an officer with theU.S. Marine Corps. He served as a helicopterpilot for three deployments in theMiddle East. He is a research chemistwith General Electric’s Global ResearchLab in Schenectady, NY.Patti West Ramseur (JD) has beennamed a partner in the Greensboro, NC,office of Smith Moore LLP.Michael Dale Warren has beenappointed medical director for theTennessee Governor’s Office ofChildren’s Care Coordination.64 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

CARO (JD ’01)2000Matt Cunningham (JD) has beennamed a partner in the Raleigh, NC,office of Smith Moore LLP.Buck Britton Endemann graduatedmagna cum laude, Order of the Coif,from the University of San Diego Schoolof Law. After completing a judicialclerkship in the Southern District ofCalifornia, he will join Latham & WatkinsLLP in San Diego. He and his wife,Sarah Wysocki Endemann (’00), arecelebrating their sixth anniversary.Holly Graham has started her ownbusiness, anniebelle, designing handmadejewelry. (www.anniebelledesigns.com)Christopher Green (JD) is a principalat Fish & Richardson PC in Atlanta. Hispractice focuses on complex intellectualproperty litigation.Daniel Johnson (JD) has been nameda partner of Vannoy Colvard Triplett &Vannoy PLLC in North Wilkesboro, NC.Anne Lathrop is flying with PHI Inc., anair medical group, flying for Air Evac.They are based in Phoenix.Poravich Makornwatana (LLM)supervises legal issues in civil cases andreviews government procurementcontracts in the department of legalcounsel in Bangkok, Thailand.Lauren Rule received her PhD inEnglish and a certificate in women’sstudies from Emory University. She willjoin the English department at TheCitadel in August as assistant professorof contemporary literature.Lisa Kaminski Shortt (JD/MBA) hasbeen named a partner in the Greensboro,NC, office of Smith Moore LLP.Pamela J. Simmons (JD) has beenappointed counsel for North America forthe Arizona Chemical Co. in Jacksonville,FL.2001Andrea Caro (JD) is a shareholder ofZimmerman Kiser & Sutcliffe PA inOrlando, FL. Her concentration is civillitigation, focusing on insurance defense,premises liability, medical malpracticeand personal injury law.Michael S. Coblin was a JAG officer inthe U.S. Army. He is now on the government,policy and regulatory affairs teamof Moore & Van Allen PLLC in Charlotte,NC.Amy L. D’Addario is an associate inthe litigation department of Barnes &Thornburg LLP in Chicago.Jenny Lynn Everett is with TheCarlyle Group, a global private equityfirm. She has been accepted at theHarvard Business School. She and herhusband live in Charlotte, NC.Brian Farrell received his MS in actuarialscience from Temple University inPhiladelphia. He is an actuarial assistantwith London Life Reinsurance in BlueBell, PA.Lauren Younger is product marketingmanager at Pure Networks Inc. inSeattle.2002Kathy Abernethy (MD ’08) has apediatric neurology residency at theUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham.Lee Briggs and Melissa Jones Briggs(’04) live in California. Their wedding atHome Moravian Church and GraylynConference Center in Winston-Salem,NC, is one of the “Real Weddings”featured in the book, “Real SimpleWeddings,” by the publishers of RealSimple magazine.Margaret C. Coppley (JD/MBA) is anassociate of Spilman Thomas & BattlePLLC in Winston-Salem, NC. Her primaryarea is litigation.Tamara Dunn is a copy editor at TheCitizens’ Voice newspaper in Wilkes-Barre, PA.Todor “Ted” Hadzhiyski (MBA) isdirector of finance with Pfizer in NewYork.Brandon Jones (MDiv) has been electedto the Mississippi House of Representatives.He is vice chairman of theinsurance committee and a member ofthe following committees: education;judiciary B; judiciary en banc; oil, gasand other minerals; ports, harbors andairports; and transportation.Andrew Whitacre underwent sixmonths of chemo therapy for Hodgkin’slymphoma and received a clean bill ofhealth in April.Kelley Wilson is assistant director ofprincipal gifts in university advancementat Wake Forest.2003Benjamin D. Hill (MA) has beenaccepted for a postdoctoral fellowship inclinical neuropsychology at BrownUniversity in Providence, RI.Erik Lindahl (JD ’06) is an assistantdistrict attorney for Mecklenburg Countyin Charlotte, NC.Timothy J. McDonnell is a nationalsales manager for A.C. Nielsen and livesin Stony Point, NY.www.wfu.edu/alumni JUNE 2008 65

Catherine Griffith McSwain (MBA)and her husband, Steve, have startedtheir own construction firm, MaplestoneConstruction, in Winston-Salem, NC.They specialize in custom building andremodeling.Christopher R. Shepard completedhis PhD in cancer pathology at theUniversity of Pittsburgh School ofMedicine. He is a postdoctoral associateat the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology and is pursuing an MBAat the Carnegie Mellon UniversityTepper School of Business.2004Angelo Bagnarosa (LLM) is in a teammanagement position with La Mondiale-AG2R, a French insurance company.Benjamin Bradford is a first-yearstudent at the University of Michigan lawschool. This summer he is a legal internat Warner Bros. Studios in his native LosAngeles.Bing Chen (LLM) is with the law firmof Wang Jing & Co. in Shanghai, China.Satoshi Yoshikawa (LLM) is pursuinga JD at Kyoto University in Japan in anew school based on the American lawschool system.2005Benjamin Hunting Ellis (JD) andAshley Long Ellis (JD ’05) weremarried in August 2006. They bothpractice law in Charlotte, NC.Jun Furuta (LLM) is in the alternativeinvestment team at Daido Life InsuranceCo. in Tokyo.Patrick C. Gallagher (JD) has beenadmitted to the Delaware Bar. He is anassociate in the corporate litigationdepartment of Potter Anderson &Corroon LLP in Wilmington, DE.Jennifer Kalcevic (LLM) is with CMSHasche Sigle, a law firm in Cologne,Germany, in the corporate finance andlitigation practice areas.66 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Hideyuki Kohata (LLM) is a directormanaging a subsidiary company ofNippon Electric Glass in Malaysia.Kenichi Kunikane (LLM) is managerof the risk control and contract administrationsection in the internationaldivision of Taisei Corp. in Tokyo.Daniel T. Leung (MD) has begun hisinfectious disease fellowship at BethIsrael Hospital in Boston.Tiffanie Michell Lord is in specialevents management in the developmentoffice of The Greater Boston Food Bank.Christopher Magiera was a finalist inthe 2008 Metropolitan Opera NationalCouncil auditions. As a baritone, he wasone of nine singers selected throughnationwide auditions to perform with theorchestra on stage at the MetropolitanOpera. He has also received the HansHachmann Memorial Award from theLiederkranz Foundation in its 2008Opera Competition and was the 2007grand prize winner in the junior youngartist division of the Florida GrandOpera Competition. He has also receivedawards from the Bel Canto and SanAntonio Opera Vocal Competitions.Amber Schonbrun is a student at theJohn Marshall Law School in Chicago.Grace Widyani (LLM) is a specialistin business law in the legal division ofPT Persahaan Gas Negara (Persero) inJakarta, Indonesia. She travels andteaches contract law at branchesthroughout Indonesia.2006Siwan Jones (LLM) is the legal Englishand English legal system lecturer at theLaw School of the Universite Catholiquede Lille in Lille, France.Molly Koernke has been accepted inthe MBA program at Michigan StateUniversity.Jason M. Loring (JD) is part of thecommercial finance group of ParkerHudson Rainer & Dobbs LLP in Atlanta.Sean Mangan is development managerfor Restaurant Management Group, afranchise operator identifying sites todevelop Little Caesars Pizza in theCharlotte, NC, area.Ryan V. McNeill (JD) is an associate ofBrinkley Walser PLLC in Lexington, NC.Rachel Sharrow received her MA in artand museum studies from GeorgetownUniversity. She is with The Walters ArtMuseum in Baltimore.2007Ahmad Al-Zaid (LLM) has enrolled inthe SJD program at the University ofKansas School of Law.Ameed Anani (LLM) has established alaw firm in Ramallah, West Bank, withfellow alumnus Muhanad Assaf (LLM’06).Elizabeth Ladt (JD) is associate counselfor international affairs and climatechange at the White House Council onEnvironmental Quality in Washington.Laurie McComas has worked as aresearch/office intern in the Washington,D.C., area. She is the assistant director ofProyecto de Trabajo Social at St. FrancisSchool of San Jose, Costa Rica, known asthe FrancisCorps community.Yurika Okumura (LLM) is assistantvice president of the compliance departmentat Tokyo Star Bank Ltd.MarriagesReid Calwell “Cal” Adams Jr. (’78,JD ’81, P ’09) and Mary Nell Craven(JD ’96). 11/17/07 in Winston-Salem,NC.Cristina E. Henson (’92) and MatthewElder. 12/8/07 in Laurel Springs, NC.They live in Statesville, NC.Dana Newbolt (’92) and MarcStorsberg. 12/1/07 in Charlotte, NC. Theylive in St. Louis.Kacey Hickey (’93) and Brian Davies.12/29/07. They live in Memphis, TN. Thewedding party included the bride’sbrother, Jon-Paul Hickey (’97), CanaanHuie (’93) and Lulu Wilson (’10).Andy Wells (’95) and Missy White.10/13/07 in Elizabethtown, NC. They livein Rose Hill, NC.Victoria “Tori” Lynne Boysen (’96)and Chad Dayton Greene. 12/15/07 inPlaya del Carmen, Mexico.Scott S. Plumridge (’98) and MaryMargaret Hiller. 12/8/07 in Birmingham,AL. The wedding party included WilliamAshworth (’98), Chris Cathcart (’98),Robert Holcomb (’98) and Kevin O’Brien(’98).Elizabeth Newsome (’00) and EdwardMiller. 3/8/08 in Goldsboro, NC.Elizabeth Crosby McClelland (’01)and Carroll Robert Boone Jr. 7/21/07 inBaton Rouge, LA. They live in Austin, TX.The wedding party included Laura BrettFahrney (’02, MSA ’02).Rachel Esther Dunn Throop (’01)and Kevin James Neumann. 7/28/07 inAlbany, OR. They live in Austin, TX. Thewedding party included Ellen Cornelius(’01), Molly MacNaughton (’01), CorinnePerkins (’02, MSA ’02) and KristenShaffer (’01).Becky Kinlein Lindahl (JD) is anassociate of Katten Muchin RosenmanLLP in Charlotte, NC.www.wfu.edu/alumni JUNE 2008 67

Kara Kam Hee Wallace (’01) andChristopher Ken Stevenson. 3/1/08 inAtlanta. They live in Falls Church,VA.The wedding party included JayneWalker Grubbs (’01), Mary Claire Hall(’02), Megan Marian Hurst (’01), ChristyParker (’01), Missy Bryce Perkins (’02,MSA ’02), Allison Hallman Sapp (’01),Katie Potts Thompson (’01, MAEd ’03)and Robyn Mayhew Wallace (’99).Amy Elizabeth Belflower (’02) andJeremy Lee Thomas. 3/15/08 in Farmville,NC. The wedding party included LindsayLafoy (’02) and Bryan Proctor (’02).Jonathan Blair Biser (’02) andElizabeth Katherine Self. 3/8/08 inAsheville, NC. They live in Cary, NC.Kate McIntire (’02) and John Forbush.4/12/08 in Saratoga Springs, NY. They livein Arlington,VA. The wedding partyincluded Charlotte Hoder Golla (’02),Alex Moran (’02), Caroline Phillips (’03)and Danielle Worthy (’02).Jennifer Lea Gayle (’03) and AndrewScott Chapman. 2/2/08 in Birmingham,AL, where they live. The wedding partyincluded Catherine Beck Agress (’03),Victoria Susan Countner (’03), LaurenMichelle Magnetti (’03) and MariePalmer White (’03).Erik A. Lindahl (’03, JD ’06) andBecky L. Kinlein (JD ’06). 3/8/08 inCharlotte, NC. The wedding partyincluded Jon Anders (’03), Becky Ballard(JD ’06), Diane Blackburn (JD ’07), JessieCohan (JD ’06), Nate Franke (’03) andTravis Young (’03).Mary Morris (’03) and Jonathan Biegel.10/6/07 in Port Tobacco, MD. They live inAlexandria,VA. The wedding partyincluded Meghan Burns (’03, MSA ’04),Rachael Carney (’03), Kelty Carpenter(’03), Walker Freeman Jones (’03) andMarie Szczurowski (’03).Grant Lewis Triplett (’03) andMelissa Erin Jones (’03). 12/2/07 inVail, CO. They live in Leawood, KS.Anna Elizabeth Warburton (’03,JD ’09) and Justin Ryan Coffin. 7/28/07in Hot Springs,VA. They live in Winston-Salem, NC. The bride’s father is MarkJoseph Warburton (MD ’76). The weddingparty included Meghan Coleman Burns(’03, MSA ’04), Lindsey StergiouGuenther (’03), Ashley True Lang (’03),Sloane Snure Paullus (’03), Marie ThereseSzczurowski (’03) and Anna Holt Upton(’03).Joseph David Beam IV (’04) andCarolyn Adele Krisel (’04). 8/4/07 inSummerville, SC. They live in Decatur,GA. The wedding party includedChristopher Cagle (’05, MSA ’06), EmilyMichael Cagle (’04), Gary Cagle (’03),Andrew Canady (’03), Jeff Frazier (’05),Greg Herzog (’04), Alicia Lee (’02),Robert Phillips (’04, MSA ’05) andMike Scott (’04).John William Lettieri (’04) andCarrie D’Ann Grady (’04). 8/18/07 inWinston-Salem, NC. Tripp Harrington(’98) was the photographer, Brett AllenHarris (’04) provided special music andJennifer Lewis Richwine (’93) directed.The wedding party included Scott RalphCleveland (’04), Morgan Taylor FordhamJr. (’04), Kelly Lauren Gamble (’04),Rebecca Wilson Harris (’04), KatherineAllison Hite (’04), Molly Elizabeth Hunt(’04), Mary Ellen Kistler (’04), JoannaFrances Lee (’04), Robert Henry Mills(’04) and Gregory David Schutt (’04).William Douglas Saunders Jr. (’04)and Anna Penniman Groos (’04).1/12/08 in San Antonio. They live inColumbia, SC. The wedding partyincluded Scott Ralph Cleveland (’04),Matthew Levi Hunt (’02), Mary EllenKistler (’04), Katherine Joyce Miller (’04),Grant Stephen Mitchell (’04), HeatherAltenbern Poe (’04), Kenneth Warren PoeJr. (’04), Andrew David Pope (’02),Katherine Troy Rigby (’04), Phillip GeorgeSimson (’04) and Lauren SullivanTurnbull (’04).Sarah Paige Tejan (’04) andHenderson Gray Fiser. 3/29/08 in Atlanta.They live in Memphis, TN. The weddingparty included Marcy Dodge (’04) andChelsea Kirkpatrick (’04).Daniel T. Leung (MD ’05) and TaraEaton. 2/23/08 in Seattle. They live inBoston.David Christopher Wells Jr. (’05) andMeredith Jennings Manning (’05).7/28/07 in Nashville, TN, where they live.The wedding party included Mark Arinci(’05), Brian Bach (’05), Meredith Brant(’05), Evelyn DeVries (’05), Steve Hale(’05), Ashleigh Harb (’05), Doug Hutton(’04), Charlie McCurry (’05) and DavidSansing (’05).Drew Harston (’06) and Carol Collier(’06). 6/30/07 in Louisville, KY, wherethey live. The wedding party includedLucy Colavincenzo (’06), Tyler Condon(’07), Jennifer Harris (’06), AlexandraMininger (’06), Richard Nicholas (’06),Danielle Richardson (’06) and MathewWilliams (’06).Blake Schwarz (’06) and JuliaFlowers (’06). 12/15/07. The weddingparty included Charles Beck (’06), MaryKathryn Jenkins Bumgarner (’06), JoshHolden (’05), Todd Miller (’05), JamesNorris (’06), Anne Marie Smith Peterson(’06), Liza Beasley Raynor (’06), Matt Veal(’07) and Alan Williams (’04).Katherine Slavin (’06) and SeanMerritt. 9/15/07 in Kirksville, MO. Theylive in Ventura, CA. The wedding partyincluded Kate Bashore (’07) and LauraLutkefedder (’07).Births/AdoptionsWilliam B. Boggs (’87) and MelanieParham Boggs (’92, MD ’97),Richmond,VA: a son, Wesley William.11/19/07. He joins his brother, Peyton (4).Lynn Grainger (’88) and JohnGrainger, North Potomac, MD: a son,Alexander William. 2/6/08. He joins hissisters, Megan (11) and Madeline (7),and brother, A.J. (4).Cynthia Clifford Fetner (’89) andTom Fetner, Raleigh, NC: a son, MatthewCharles. 7/24/0768 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Hensley (’50), Jensen (’61)join N.C. Sports Hall of FameBy Leo Derrick (’50)In a category almost as unique as the man himself, BillHensley (’50) of Charlotte was inducted into the NorthCarolina Sports Hall of Fame as writer/publicist/promoter atceremonies May 15 in Raleigh. Jack Jensen (‘61), golf andbasketball coach at Guilford College, was also inducted.For Hensley, this is the culmination of a long but stillactivecareer that had its genesis when he was sports editorof the Old Gold and Black, a publication he served as editorfor his senior year. A vibrant and vital 82, Hensley is anationally known writer, lecturer and promoter and amember of the North Carolina Journalism/Public RelationsHall of Fame and the Carolinas Golf Hall of Fame. He haswon the Charles Kuralt Award for excellence in writing andpromotion work. He was founding chairman of theCharlotte Convention and Visitors Bureau.After graduation, Hensley joined the Asheville newspaperas a sports writer, and later he had distinguished stintsas an FBI agent and universitysports informationdirector and in corporatepublic relations. Beforeforming his own public relationsfirm, he was NorthCarolina’s Director of Traveland Tourism from 1965 to1971 and won numerousnational awards for uniqueand successful advertisingand promotion programs.Bill Hensley (’50)He was the first chairman ofthe National Council of StateTravel Directors and served in the same leadership capacityfor Travel South, a travel and marketing organization of 11southern states.He wrote a monthly travel column for North Carolinamagazine for 10 years and continues freelance writing forgolf and travel publications. He founded the North Carolinagolf panel in 1995 to select the top 100 courses in the state.He helped create the N.C. Sports Hall of Fame and was itspresident four years. He, along with then-athletic directorGene Hooks (‘50), co-founded the Wake Forest Sports Hallof Fame.When Wake Forest joined the Atlantic CoastConference in 1953, athletic director Jim Weaver askedHensley to become the school’s first sports informationdirector. Success there led tohis hiring by N.C. State in1955. His writing and promotionalefforts at the twoschools helped produce 12All-American athletes. Healso handled media relationsfor the ACC basketball tournament,the Dixie Classic andfour NCAA regionals.“Writing about sportsand helping promote athletics Jack Jensen (’61)has been a big part of my life,”said the Asheville native and longtime Charlotte resident,and I’ve loved every minute of it. I wouldn’t take anythingfor the countless thrills I’ve had along the way.”Jensen went into coaching two sports with outstandingresults at Division II Guilford College. He lettered in basketball,track and tennis at Wake Forest, and said he was asports wannabe, never on scholarship. But he carried a storeof knowledge and enthusiasm away from his participation.He laughingly said he and Deacon basketball great LenChappell (‘62) “combined for 52 points in a win overVirginia. Len got 50.”His success with the golf program at Guilford has certainlybeen no subject for levity. He’s had three nationalchampionships, 1989, 2002, 2005; 17 top 10’s, four nationalrunners-up and 17 conference championships. He is one ofonly two coaches to win national championships in differentsports, having won the NAIA basketball title in 1973.He was recently tapped for the Golf CoachesAssociation of America Hall of Fame and was honored at theceremony with Arnold Palmer (’51), who received a LifetimeAchievement Award. Jensen coached both sports for 23years, before giving up basketball in 1999 to concentrate ongolf. At the Quaker institution, he coached 38 All-Americansand three national medalistsOther May inductees and their sports connections are:Tom Butters, athletic director, Duke University; RichardChildress, racing; Leo Hart, football, Duke; Ken Huff, football,UNC; Curly Neal, basketball, Johnson C. SmithUniversity and Harlem Globetrotters; and Roy Williams,basketball coach, UNC.Leo Derrick (’50) is a communications professional livingin Asheboro, North Carolina.www.wfu.edu/alumni JUNE 2008 69

John A. Grimes (’90, MD ’94) andMandy Zopp Grimes (’91, MD ’96),Charlotte, NC: a son, John Alexander.2/19/08. He joins his sisters, Claire (3)and Liza (18 mos.).Tamara Williams Jones (’90) andMark Jones, Atlanta: a daughter, AerinCampbell. 10/24/07. She joins her sister,Tyler (6), and brother, Logan (4).Christina Berg (’92) and StephenBrewer, Salisbury, NC: a daughter, StellaBrice. 3/29/07Sterling Griggs (’92) and KellieGriggs,Yadkinville, NC: a daughter,Emmerson Caroline. 2/25/08. She joinsher sisters, Chandler and Reynolds, andbrother, Deacon.Eric Ashley Hairston (’92) andCherry Chevy Hairston (’93),Durham, NC: a daughter, MadelineGabrielle. 11/2/07. She joins her brother,Graham (5).Lucy Park (’92) and Joshua Calder,Washington, D.C.: a son, Owen Park.6/19/07Neil Hunter Raiford (’92) and KarenGilliam Raiford (’94), Huntsville, AL: ason, Turner Cheyney. 6/15/07. He joins hisbrothers, Benjamin and Thomas.Clark Pinyan (’93) and KimberlyPinyan, Winston-Salem, NC: a daughter,Caroline Grace. 2/29/08David Cunningham (’94) and CharlesHunter, Apex, NC: a son, Lucas. 4/21/07,adopted 1/15/08.Elizabeth Withers Flynn (’94) andJudson Flynn, Atlanta: a daughter, SadieElizabeth. 4/1/07. She joins her sister,Audrey (4).Stella Cline Hung (’94, MD ’00) andPatrick Hung, Greensboro, NC: a son,Ellison Hamilton. 1/9/08. He joins hisbrother, Isaac Alexander (1 1/2).Tracy Nickerson Schaefer (’94) andJim Schaefer, Gastonia, NC: a son,Samuel Anthony. 12/21/07. He joins hissister, Kylie (2).Todd Stillerman (’94) and DebbieRobson Stillerman (’96), Charlotte,NC: a son, William Todd Jr. 12/20/07Kyle Armentrout (’95) and ColleenLee Armentrout (’95), Windermere,FL: a daughter, Caroline Lee. 7/19/07. Shejoins her brothers, Will (6) and Owen (3).Shannon Mathers Deisen (’95) andManuel Deisen, Fernandina Beach, FL: adaughter, Amelia Hoai Huong. 3/17/07 inVietnam, adopted 1/22/08, arrived 3/4/08.She joins her sister, Madeleine (7), andbrother, Lukas (4).Amy Ragan DiCristina (’95) andCary DiCristina, Decatur, GA:a daughter, Sophia Ragan. 2/20/08Gini Weir Florer (’95) and John Florer,Dallas: a son, Sutton Holloway. 12/14/07.He joins his brothers, Will (6) and JohnLawson (4).L. Carter Gray (’95, MD ’99) and JimWarner, Durham, NC: a son, WalterWarner. 12/13/07. He joins his brother,Henry (2).Allison Grayson Haas (’95) and TomHaas, Suwanee, GA: twin daughters,Ellie Faith and Mia Grace. 1/26/08. Theyjoin their brother, Noah (2).Jill Thorpe Ross (’95) and XavierRoss, Bay Shore, NY: a daughter, DaisyGrace. 6/18/07Stephen Edward Schroth (’92,MBA ’99) and Nadia Zaidi Schroth(’95, JD ’98), Charlotte, NC: a daughter,Elyse Richardson. 1/3/08. She joins hersister, Caroline (2 1/2).Kim Lennox Sharkey (’92) and KevinSharkey, Gypsum, CO: a son, GannonTimothy. 2/11/08. He joins his sister,Rylee Lennox (2).Neil Alan Willard (’92) and CarrieWillard, St. Louis Park, MN: a son,Rowan Quinn. 1/29/08Ann Janak Bagley (’93) and J.C.Bagley, Cary, NC: a daughter, AddisonGrace. 12/17/07. She joins her sisters,Elise (6) and Nina (4).Tiffini Williamson Canty (’93) andCurtis Canty, Charlotte, NC: a son,Joshua Curtis. 1/2/0870 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Colin Creel (’96, MA ’00) and KristaCreel, Norcross, GA: a son, ColeRobertson. 3/29/08Kristen Walls Poff (’96) and AdamWyatt Poff, Wilmington, DE: a son, TateEverett. 7/18/07. He joins his brother,Tucker Wyatt (3).Michael W. Smith (’96) and ErinSmith, Charlotte, NC: a daughter, KarlinGrace. 1/27/08Marla Keann Brock (’97) and GregoryE. Zembik, Miami: a son, Zane Gregory.1/21/08Carlos E. Jane’ (JD ’97) and AshleyCaroline Kinney, Winston-Salem, NC: adaughter, Piper Sloan. 12/4/07Kimberly Henney McCluney (’97)and Wesley McCluney, Atlanta: a son,Wesley Hillman II. 1/19/08Elizabeth Bell Schweppe (’97) andJohn Schweppe, Shelby, NC: a daughter,Anna Elizabeth Meng. 6/29/07 in China,adopted 1/22/08. She joins her brother,Daniel (5).Vanessa Slattery Kuklick (’98) andBrian Kuklick (’02), Charlotte, NC: adaughter, Leah Ansley. 10/31/07. Shejoins her brother, Cole (2).Lindsay Mitchell Madom (’98) andIan Madom, Providence, RI: twin boys,Cyrus Kumar and Luke Austin. 8/23/07Telly Ali Meadows (’98) and JenniferJenkins Meadows (’98), Cleveland: adaughter, Kaitlyn Aaliyah. 11/22/07Phillip Schmitz Moore (’98, MD ’02)and Stefanie Jolly Moore, Winston-Salem, NC: a daughter, Megan Riley.11/24/07Jayme Head Sanchez (’98) andArturo Sanchez, Dallas: a son, Arturo IV.12/19/07Michelle Rose Stine (’98) and MikeStine, Wilmington, NC: a son, JasonCharles. 11/24/07. He joins his brother,Josh (4).Christine Calareso Bleecker (’99)and David Bleecker, Laguna Niguel, CA:a son, Joseph Christopher. 3/10/08. Hejoins his brother, Benjamin (1).Eric M. Envall (JD ’99) and EricaEnvall, Washington, D.C.: a son, SpencerThomas. 3/8/08Fizzah Zahir Gocke (’99) and MichaelTimothy Gocke, Falls Church,VA: adaughter, Giselle Amna. 10/4/07. Shejoins her brother, Michael (4).Jonathan Harrison Harper (’99) andElise Adams Harper (’99), Dallas: ason, Brooks Harrison. 3/7/08. He joins hisbrother, Luke (2).Martin Harrell (’99) and MaryCockrell Harrell (’99), Jacksonville, FL:a daughter, Caroline Collet. 12/17/07Tamara Fox Hines (MA ’99) andJason Hines, Granite Falls, NC: a son,Landon Charles. 11/20/07. He joins hissister, Brittany Ann (15).Maggie Shaffer Lindley (’99) andMatt Lindley, Franklin, TN: a daughter,Jane. 2/8/08Eden Kellett Martin (’99) andStephen Martin, Greenville, SC: a son,Stephen Chappell. 2/14/07Eric Palmer (’99) and LaurenFurgurson Palmer (’99), San Diego: adaughter, Tess Evelyn. 9/7/07Anne-Marie LeBlanc Davis (’00) andAaron Davis, Falmouth, ME: a son,Edwin Jones. 4/1/08. He joins his brother,Owen (4), and sister,Vivian (18 mos).Cameron Lee Farmer (’00) andBrooke Michael Farmer (’00),Pfafftown, NC: a son, Jackson Samuel.1/13/08. He joins his sister, Ada Cavin (2).Tiska Kennedy Farnham (’00) andKevin Farnham, Raleigh, NC: a daughter,Emory Katherine. 11/8/07. She joins hersister, Kennedy (1).Andrew Rodd Ferguson (’00) andAbbey Keenan Ferguson (’00),Charlottesville,VA: a son, Wilson James.11/6/07Elizabeth Sprunt Jones (’00) andWorth Jones, Memphis, TN: a son,Bennett. 3/17/08. He joins his brother,Cort (2).Matthew Troy Phillips (’00, JD ’06)and Heather Holley Phillips (’00),Bermuda Run, NC: a son, Grady Depro.3/15/08Stephanie Fulton Terry (’00) andRobby Terry, Statesville, NC: a daughter,Celia Paige. 2/4/08Ann Marie Mongelli Hawryluk (’01)and Michael Hawryluk, Chambersburg,PA: a daughter, Piper Josephine. 1/18/08.She joins her sister, Ava (1 1/2).George Asbury Lawson III (’01) andAmy Byars Lawson (’01), Nashville,TN: George Asbury IV. 3/17/08Emily Chapin Lewis (’01) andBradford Lewis (’02, MSA ’02),Denver: a son, Xander Samuel. 2/12/08.Watched his first basketball game whenwe beat Duke!Daniel R. Pickett (’98) and JenniferPickett, Birmingham, AL: a son, CharlesReid. 10/3/07Emily Kilburn Powell (’98) andBrandon Powell, Charlotte, NC: twinsons, Brady Richard and Cooper David.11/16/07Thomas Wesley Templeton (MD ’99)and Leah Bumgarner Templeton(MD ’99), Winston-Salem, NC: a son,John Wesley. 1/6/08. He joins his sisters,Lauren (3) and Madeline (2).Ann McAdams Bumgardner (’00) andRichard Bumgardner, Wilmington, NC: ason, William Andrew. 12/27/07David Scott Siemon (’01) and TamaraGehris Siemon, Atlanta: a daughter,Gabrielle Brooke. 2/29/08Robert Wearing (JD ’01) andMeredith Blondell Wearing (JD ’01),Arlington,VA: a daughter, MadeleineBeverley. 12/3/07. She joins her brother,Dylan Robert (2).www.wfu.edu/alumni JUNE 2008 71

K. Brooke Eichelberger Bruner(’02, MSA ’03) and Robert P. Bruner(JD ’03), Birmingham, AL: a daughter,Caroline Abigail. 2/28/08Scott Douglas Bryant (MBA ’02) andLisa Bryant, Kernersville, NC: a son, EvanScott. 6/11/07Cameron Tornow Holcomb (’02) andBryan Holcomb, Greensboro, NC: adaughter, Ella Anne. 11/30/07Traci Hale McDuffie (’02) and D.J.McDuffie, Woodstock, GA: a son, GrantCarter. 2/12/08Heather Howell Wright (JD ’02) andDanny Wright (MBA ’08), Greensboro,NC: a daughter, Elizabeth HartmanSterling. 3/12/08. She joins her brother,Howell (3).Ray Ashburg (JD ’03) and Amy S.Ashburg, Pearland, TX: a son, Logan G.9/8/07Keith Allen Pochick (MD ’03) andMeredith Givens Pochick (MD ’03),Charlotte, NC: a daughter, Taylor Marie.2/6/08Andrea Leutz Roberts (’05) andNick Roberts, Columbus, OH: a son,Landon Jackson. 2/7/08Kevin B. Shute (MD ’05) and Emily E.Shute, Winston-Salem, NC: a daughter,Emily Addison. 1/17/08Wesley Burgess (MBA ’07) and LisaBurgess, Lewisville, NC: a daughter,Courtney Savannah. 12/22/07Mohamad Basam (LLM ’07) andArij Bajnaid, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia:a son, Eyas. 7/5/07Majed Alarife (LLM ’08) andWejdan Alkaldi, Winston-Salem, NC:a son, Abdullah. 11/6/07DeathsGeorge Monroe Beavers Jr. (’33),March 4, 2008, Apex, NC. He served inthe U.S. Marines and spent his life farmingin the Green Level community wherehe grew up. He was predeceased by hismother and father, Daisy and GeorgeSr. (1898), his wife, Wilba, and hissiblings, James (’28), David (’37),Charles (’34, MD ’36), Janie, Lydiaand Alice. He is survived by his fourchildren, Susan, Carl (’78, P ’02),Wayne and Paul, and their spouses;12 grandchildren, including CarolineJohnson Numbers (’02); four greatgrandchildren;and three brothers.Arthur Clayton Crofton (’34),March 28, 2008, Williamston, NC. Heserved as a pilot during World War IIand was retired from the building supplyand insurance industry.Ruamie Carroll Squires (’34),Feb.17,2008, Raleigh, NC. She taught seniorEnglish in the Fair Bluff, Franklinton,Pinnacle, Raleigh, Wake Forest andWashington, NC, public schools until herretirement in 1975. She published a bookof selected poems, “Where TomorrowWas” (1998). She and her sister werehonored with The Ruamie CarrollSquires and Hildreth Squires BarnesScholarship at Meredith College for theimpact they made on students. She waspredeceased by her brother, Rodney M.Squires (’41), and sisters, EvelynHowell and Hildreth Barnes. She issurvived by a sister, Julia SquiresWitten (’40, MD ’41), and a brother,Cedric Pridgen Squires (’48).Julius Ammons Howell (JD ’35, ’40),March 13, 2008, Winston-Salem, NC. Hewas professor emeritus of plastic surgeryat the School of Medicine. He receivedhis medical degree from the Universityof Pennsylvania and completed his residencyin otolaryngology in 1949 at theBowman Gray School of Medicine. Hewas a captain in the U.S. Army duringthe Korean War and was the personalphysician of South Korean PresidentSyngman Rhee. He received the BronzeStar, among other distinguished medals,for meritorious service. After completinghis plastic surgery training at New YorkHospital at Cornell University, hereturned to Bowman Gray in 1957 as aninstructor in plastic and reconstructivesurgery. He was promoted to professor ofsurgery in 1972 and served as chairmanof the section on plastic and reconstructivesurgery from 1973 until retiring in1979. He was nationally renowned for hisexpertise in the medical-legal field andperiodically taught a course at the WakeForest School of Law. He is survived byhis wife, Anne, three daughters, AnneHowell Gray, Karen Ammons Howelland Robin Rhodes Howell, and twograndchildren. Memorials may be madeto the Julius Ammons Howell Chair inPlastic Surgery, Wake Forest UniversityBaptist Medical Center, Medical CenterBoulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27517-1021.Clarence Edward Hobgood (’36),Feb. 29, 2008, Charlotte, NC. He was agraduate of Yale Divinity School, AirUniversity Command and Staff College,and received his PhD from EpiscopalTheological School in Lexington, KY.He was a chaplain in the U.S. Army AirCorps during World War II and served inthe Air Force during the Korean War. Heretired as a colonel, having received theBronze Star, the Four Chaplains Awardfor Interfaith Relations and twoMeritorious Service Medals. He waselected suffragan bishop for the ArmedForces, and after retiring in 1978 heserved as visiting bishop to the dioceseof North Carolina and Southern Virginia.John Kanoy Myers Sr. (’38), Jan. 28,2008, Lexington, NC. He served in theU.S. Army during World War II and wasthe retired owner of Myers & CraverCoal Co. He is survived by his sons anddaughters-in-law, John Jr. (’65) andGeryl, and Tom and Nancy; daughtersand sons-in-law, Martha (’62) andRobert (’61) Adams and Suzanne andJohn Andrews; daughter, Cindy Lanier;nine grandchildren; and 13 greatgrandchildren.72 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Claude Henry Byerly (’40, MD ’41),Jan. 20, 2008, Siler City, NC. He was acaptain in the U.S. Army during WorldWar II and practiced medicine in SilerCity for 57 years before retiring in 2004 atthe age of 90. He served on the Siler CityTown Board as mayor pro-tem for 10years and served on the Wake ForestAlumni Council from 1970-72. He waspreceded in death by his wife, Harriett,and a son, Christopher L. Byerly (’68,JD ’79). He is survived by a daughter,Claudia Byerly Bessmer, two grandsonsand two great-grandchildren.James Y. Griggs (’42, MD ’44),Feb. 17, 2008, Hendersonville, NC. Heserved in the U.S. Navy and practicedsurgery in St. Louis.Nicholas A. Verna (’42), April 9, 2008,Canton, OH. He served in the U.S. Navyduring World War II aboard the USSMarsh. He was retired from AmericanAutomated Vending Corp.Fredrick Payne Dale (’43), April 4,2008, Kinston, NC. He retired in 1983from Kinston Surgical Associates after along career as a surgeon in his hometown.He attended medical school atTemple University and served for twoyears as a Navy flight surgeon in SanJuan, Puerto Rico, and Cherry Point, NC,before returning to Kinston to begin hissurgical career. He was president of theN.C. State Board of Health for two yearsand was active in a number of communityorganizations. He completed missiontrips to the Gaza Strip, where he volunteeredin a hospital, and to Alaska, wherehe helped build a church. He is survivedby his wife of 59 years, Nancy, daughtersLaural Powell and Nan Morris, sonsPayne Jr. and Mark (’79), and six grandchildren.Joseph Phillip Greer (’43), April 8,2008, Elkin, NC. He also graduated fromDuke University and spent many yearsworking in hospital administration inBoston and Chicago.Bryan Osborne Sandlin (’43),Feb.21,2008, Raleigh, NC. He served in theMerchant Marines during World War IIand was a career salesman in the furnitureindustry.Allison M. Alderman Jr. (’44, MD ’46),Feb. 14, 2008, Raleigh, NC. He was a veteranof the U.S. Navy and the U.S. NavalReserves. He was a physician in Wallace,NC, for one year and in Raleigh for 43years. He was the first physician certifiedas a board specialist in family medicinein Wake County. He was president of theN.C. Academy of Family Physicians in1974 and a Fellow of American Academyof Family Physicians. In 1973 he waspresident of Rex Hospital Medical Staffand chief executive officer the followingyear. He was preceded in death by hiswife of 38 years, Ruth. He is survived byhis wife, LaBette, three daughters, JeanClarke, Nancy Alderman (’72) andAllison Morrisette, and three grandchildren.Jane Hobgood Bland (’45), March 9,2008, Cary, NC. She was active in theCary Garden Club, the Cary Women’sClub and her church. She was precededin death by a daughter, brother and sister.She is survived by her husband of 61years, William Herbert Bland (’45,MD ’48), three sons, and two sisters,Iris Turner (’49) and Joyce Winders.Radford Norman Butler Sr. (’46,MD ’50), April 15, 2008, Lewisville, NC.He practiced internal medicine for 34years in Winston-Salem, NC.John Kendrick Stamey (’46), Jan. 25,2008, Brunswick, GA. He signed with theBrooklyn Dodgers to play baseball afterattending Wake Forest and served in theU.S. Army during the Korean War. Hegraduated from Lenoir Rhyne Collegeand was employed by Equifax Inc. untilhis retirement in 1992.Ellen Vaughan Campbell (’47),Nov. 16, 2007, Richmond,VA. She taughtin public and private schools, was a Biblestudy teacher and a pastor’s wife, assistingher husband in United Methodistchurches throughout Virginia.Wyatt Conner O’Brien (’47), Jan. 22,2008, Chase City,VA. He served in theU.S. Navy during World War II. He wasmanager of O’Brien Drug Co. in ChaseCity for 34 years.Warren V. Woodard II (’47), Jan. 30,2008, Bethlehem, PA. He served in theArmy Air Corps during World War II. Hewas a self-employed surveyor.Ernest Harold Pittman (’48), March10, 2008, Charlotte, NC. He was an aviatorin the U.S. Navy during World War IIand retired from the Naval Reserves as acommander in 1983. He was in real estatemanagement with Bank of America andserved as president of the CharlotteChapter of the Institute of Real EstateManagement. After his retirement, hewas a senior real estate consultant forTASA, a professional consulting organization.He is survived by his wife,Eleanore, two sons, George and Robert,and a sister, Evelyn Pittman Hill (’47).Howard Lee Rivenbark (’48),Feb.2,2008, Wilmington, NC. He served in theU.S. Army Air Corps during World WarII and was a retired special educationteacher in the Duplin County publicschools.Linney Ray White (’48), Jan. 27, 2008,Hampton,VA. He was retired from thepharmaceutical division of A.H. RobinsCo. with 32 years of service and was aretired colonel in the U.S. Air Force. Hewas a B-52 bomber pilot during WorldWar II and served 25 years in the AirForce Reserve. He received the followingawards: Silver Star, six Bronze BattleStars, Philippine Liberation Ribbon,Distinguished Flying Cross, PurpleHeart, Air Medal with two Oak LeafClusters,Victory Medal and PresidentialUnit Citation.www.wfu.edu/alumni JUNE 2008 73

M. Alexander Biggs Jr. (’49, JD ’57),March 19, 2008, Rocky Mount, NC. Heserved in the U.S. Navy and worked withGMAC before going to law school. Hewas assistant director of the Institute ofGovernment at UNC-Chapel Hill and in1959 began practicing law in RockyMount, mostly engaged in trial practice.He was appointed to the Seventh JudicialDistrict Court Bench in 1991 and heldthat position until his retirement in 1999.He was a trustee emeritus of WakeForest.Edwin Hassell Brantley (’49), Jan. 17,2008, Spring Hope, NC.Victor S. Dowd (’49), Feb. 11, 2008,Greensboro, NC. He was a Baptistminister who served churches in Raleigh,Durham, and Greensboro, NC, for almost30 years. He was a U.S. Army veteranand adjunct chaplain at Moses ConeHospital. He also served as chaplain forthe Masonic and Eastern Star Home.Harold Swanson Hayes (’49),March 19, 2008, Durham, NC. He wasretired from Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co.George Watkins Isaacs (’49),Feb.16,2008, Newport, TN. He served in the U.S.Navy Reserve and the U.S. Army. He wasa retired chiropodist. He graduated fromthe Temple University College ofChiropody and received his DSC fromChicago College of Chiropody and PedicSurgery. He was preceded in death byhis grandfather, George ThomasWatkins (1889); his uncles, GeorgeThomas Watkins Jr. (’12, ’13,MD ’15, P ’42, ’50), Basil ManlyWatkins Sr. (’15, P ’51) and WilliamMerritt Watkins (’21, MD ’23, P ’48,’58); and brother, Fred W. Isaacs Jr.(’50). He is survived by his brother,Richard, and his wife, and a sister-in-law,Edith “Henry” Isaacs (’49).William Curtis Lamb (’49), Jan. 30,2008, Burlington, NC. He graduated fromthe Southern Baptist TheologicalSeminary and was an ordained minister.He had many years of Christian serviceas an associate pastor, pastor, associatedirector, director of missions, state directorof evangelism and evangelism consultant.He also served as a visitinginstructor of evangelism at SoutheasternBaptist Theological Seminary in WakeForest, NC. He contributed a chapter in abook, “Evangelism Men: MotivatingLaymen to Witness” (Broadman Press).Claud G. Rutledge (’49), Sept. 24, 2007,Durham, NC. He served in the U.S. Navyduring World War II. He was employedby the Department of Defense andThompson Dental in Columbia, SC.Adam Wayne Beck (’50, JD ’52),March 28, 2008, Asheboro, NC. Aftergraduation he opened a law practice withthe late G.E. Miller. He later practicedunder the name of Beck O’BriantO’Briant & Glass, retiring in 1990. Hereceived the Distinguished ServiceAward from the Asheboro JuniorChamber of Commerce and the SilverBeaver Award from the Boy Scouts ofAmerica. He is survived by his wife,Audrey Craig Beck (’53); two sons,Mark and Eric (MD ’00); a daughter,Emily; and ten grandchildren.Evelyn Abolila Borkowski (’50),Jan. 24, 2008, Miami. She taught school inRed Oak and Canton, NC, before movingto Florida. She received her MAEd fromthe University of Miami and taughtscience, math and physical education atSouth Miami Junior High School. Shegrew up in Chadburn, NC, with hersiblings Paul, Peter (’54) and RoseCrawford (’53).James Lucas Chestnutt Jr. (’50),March 13, 2008, Winston-Salem, NC. Heserved in the U.S. Navy Air Force duringWorld War II. He worked in basic chemistryresearch at Virginia CarolinaChemical Corp. and later in packagingresearch at Reynolds Metals Co. inRichmond,VA. In 1964 he moved toWinston-Salem and worked at RJRArcher, retiring in 1987 as vice presidentof technology. After retirement he foundedand was president of PackagingConsultants Inc., retiring in 1996. He wasmanaging director of Scheupbach, apackaging company in Burgdorf,Switzerland. He was named to thePackaging Hall of Fame and listed inWho’s Who in Packaging in the U.S. andSwitzerland. He is survived by his wife,Peggy, three children, Bryan (’78),Marsha LeDuke and Bruce, and fivegrandchildren.Joseph Daniel Huffstetler (’50),Jan. 23, 2008, Sanford, NC. He served inthe U.S. Navy. He was distribution managerof Maxway until his retirement in1993. He volunteered as softball and basketballcoach with the Sanford RecreationDepartment and was instrumental inestablishing the varsity basketball teamat Sanford Central High School.David Leon Ichelson (MD ’50), March13, 2008, San Francisco.William Penn Shore Jr. (BBA ’50),Jan. 18, 2008, Winston-Salem, NC. He wasa veteran of the U.S. Army, having servedin Italy and Korea. He received theCombat Infantry Badge, Bronze Star andtwo Purple Hearts. He was retired fromR.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. He is survivedby his wife, Anne Toler (’49),twodaughters, a son and two grandchildren.Irene Flowers Barnes (’51), Jan. 21,2008, Bowling Green, KY. She served as amissionary in Nigeria and West Africaalongside her now deceased husband,Joseph Alger Barnes (’49, MD ’53).She was predeceased by six siblings,including Elijah Flowers (’50) andRuby Washburn (’49). She is survivedby three daughters, four grandchildren,and a brother.74 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

Betty Lou Collins Friday (’51),March 13, 2008, Charlotte, NC. She wasthe widow of Grady Lawrence FridayJr. (’49).Alton Davenport Harris (’51),March 2, 2008, New Bern, NC. He servedin the U.S. Army during World War IIand the Korean War. He was in the U.S.Army Reserve and a commanding officerof the New Bern Reserve Unit. He beganhis public health service with theBeaufort-Hyde Health Department andtransferred to Craven County where heretired as director of environmentalhealth after 32 years of service. He wasinstrumental in the establishment of theSchool of Environmental Health at EastCarolina University and continued toserve on the advisory council. He wasappointed clinical assistant professor ofenvironmental health.Julia Perry Price (’51), Jan. 22, 2008,Kinston, NC. She was the former personneldirector for Carolina Dairies. She waspreceded in death by her husband,Edward Dwight Price (’50). She issurvived by a daughter, Dianne; threesons, Larry, Cecil (’78, MD ’82), thedirector of Student Health Services onthe Wake Forest Reynolda Campus, andStewart; nine grandchildren; and onegreat-grandchild.Beverly Neilson Rivera (’51),Feb.25,2008, Clearwater, FL. She earned hermaster’s in religious education andtaught over 30 years. She taught in NorthCarolina and retired from the Miamischool system in 1993.Thomas Glenn Rowland (’51), Jan. 22,2008, Gastonia, NC. He received hisMAEd from George Peabody College/Vanderbilt University. He was a teacherand administrator for 38 years in theGaston County school system.Richard Byrd Southard (’51),Feb.7,2008, Sarasota, FL. He served in the U.S.Navy. He was a technical engineer withWestern Electric, Bell Labs and Alcatel-Lucent.Ida Janie Hall (’53), Jan. 9, 2008,Corbin, KY. She was the first woman toreceive a theological degree from theSoutheastern Baptist TheologicalSeminary in Wake Forest, NC. She alsoreceived a master of arts degree from theUniversity of Tennessee with a thesis,“The History of Cumberland College.”She taught history and religion atCumberland College, now the Universityof the Cumberlands, for 31 years, andtaught part time after retirement. Shereceived the Distinguished Alumna ofthe Year and Honored Professor of theYear awards from Cumberland College.Maurice W. Hunting (’53), March 29,2008, Tunkhannock, PA. He received hisDDS from the University of Pittsburghand served in the U.S. Navy and the U.S.Army during the Korean War. He openeda dental practice in Meshoppen in 1965,moved it to Tunkhannock in 1974, andretired in 2007.Marilyn Frances ThomasEdmondson (’54), March 15, 2008, OakCity, NC. She taught school for over 30years in Edgecombe and Martin countiesand taught many young people to playthe piano. She is survived by a daughter,Marilyn Hesser (’78); a son, Sutton;and five grandchildren.Joseph Cleveland Massey Jr. (’54),Feb. 12, 2008,Yadkinville, NC. He was aretired medical records administrator atThe Williamsport Hospital of Williamsport,PA. He coordinated the Winston-Salem Dystonia Support Group to raiseawareness of the disease and in 2001 thenaming of the third week of October bythe N.C. governor as DystoniaAwareness Week.Abe Forest Maxwell (’54), Feb. 9, 2008,Worthington, OH. He was retired fromChemical Abstracts Service. He wasactive in the Worthington HistoricalSociety.Lawrence Thaddeus Prevatte Jr.(’54), March 3, 2008, Whiteville, NC. Heserved as a lieutenant in the U.S. MarineCorps and was a graduate of SoutheasternBaptist Theological Seminary. Hiscareer as a Baptist minister began in1961, serving churches in Virginia andNorth Carolina until 1995. He waschaplain at the N.C. Department ofCorrections in Brunswick from 1996 untilhis retirement in 2003.David William Rogers Sr. (’54),Jan. 18, 2008, Roxboro, NC. He served inthe U.S. Air Force during World War II.He was a high school math and Englishteacher, principal in Caswell County,associate professor of education atFurman University, director of educationin the Lumberton City school system,and associate superintendent of schoolsin Burke and Person counties. He wasactive in organizing Western PiedmontTechnical College in Burke County andan organizing member and trustee ofPiedmont Community College in PersonCounty. He was a Paul Harris Fellow ofRotary International. The Dr. David W.Rogers Educational Scholarship wasnamed in his honor by the PersonCounty Retired School Personnel.A.N. Kaplan Jr. (MD ’56), March 5,2008, Asheville, NC. He was a captain inthe U.S. Army during World War II. Hepracticed pediatrics for 40 years inMiami.Joe Howard Burt (’57, MD ’61),Feb. 25, 2008, Knotts Island, NC.Robert Carroll Hensley Sr. (’57),April 11, 2008, Jacksonville, NC. Hereceived a BS and MDiv from theSoutheastern Baptist TheologicalSeminary. He, along with his wife BettyJo, served as a foreign missionary for40 years in the Bahamas, Barbados,Costa Rica, Panama and Mexico untiltheir retirement in 2003. Since then, theyhave been serving as missionaries-inresidencewith the New River BaptistAssociation and coordinators ofSamaritan’s Purse Operation ChristmasChild for Jacksonville, NC, and Onslowcounty.www.wfu.edu/alumni JUNE 2008 75

John Thomas Arledge Jr. (’58),Feb. 14, 2008, Lake Lure, NC. He spent 30years in broadcasting and participated inmagician performances for civic organizationsand community service. He wasinvolved in mission work in Hawaii from1983 until his retirement in 1995. He waspreceded in death by his mother andfather, Jack Sr. (JD ’34), and his son,Eddie.Lloyd Herritage Harrison (’58,MD ’62), Feb. 18, 2008, Tobaccoville, NC.He was a professor of urology and aurologist for 30 years at Wake ForestUniversity Baptist Medical Center. Hewas a surgeon, lecturer and author ofclinical papers, textbook chapters andjournal articles. He was president of theAmerican Urological Association from1999-2000. After graduating from WakeForest, he served in the Army and was ageneral practitioner in Warrenton, NC,for two years, before completing his residencyin urology at the Bowman GraySchool of Medicine. He is survived by hiswife, Karren, seven children, includingLloyd Jr. (’83) and Jane Schnably(’93), 11 grandchildren and one greatgrandchild.James Kay Scott (BBA ’58), Jan. 20,2008, Winston-Salem, NC. He served inthe U.S. Navy during the Korean Warand was retired from Western Electric(AT&T) after 40 years of service. He issurvived by his wife, Ann, a daughter,two sons, five grandchildren, two sisters,and a brother, Bob Scott (’58).Roger H. Williams (BBA ’58), Jan. 29,2008, Winnsboro, TX. He served in theU.S. Army during the Korean War andwas a retired civil servant for theDepartment of Defense at the MarineCorps Air Station Cherry Point, NC.John Robinson Prince Jr. (’59),Jan. 28, 2008, Raleigh, NC. His businesscareer began with Revelle Builders inMurfreesboro, NC. He retired fromBobbitt & Associates and BobbittInternational LTD and retired in 2005from Steel Dynamics. He was one of thefounders of Pack Rat Portable MiniStorage.Jerome William Hillebrand (’60),Feb. 9, 2008, Advance, NC.Peggy Berrier McCoy (’60),Feb.10,2008, Winston-Salem, NC. She wasretired from the Winston-Salem/ForsythCounty schools after 32 years atWalkertown Middle School. She alsoserved as organist and director ofChristian education at Canaan UnitedMethodist Church.Samuel Lentz Sanders Sr. (’60),Feb. 24, 2008, Winston-Salem, NC. Hewas a member of the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Sports Hall of Fame andwas named Most Outstanding Player inWinston-Salem in 1951 in football. Aftera short time at Integon Insurance, hejoined the family business of LentzTransfer and Storage, where he was president,chief executive officer and chairmanof the board. He is survived by hiswife, Dee Ann; three children, Samuel Jr.,Sallie (’91) and David; and three grandchildren.Bruce Willingham Sellers Jr. (’60),Jan. 15, 2008, Wilmington, NC. He was alieutenant in the U.S. Army and executivein the trucking industry, most recentlyat ERX in North Bergen, NJ.Aldon McKinley Idol (’61),Feb.23,2008, Winston-Salem, NC. He served inthe U.S. Marine Corps and worked forSealtest. He retired as an appraisalsupervisor from the Forsyth County TaxOffice after 35 years of service.James Edward McMullin III (’61),Jan. 2, 2008, Boca Raton, FL. He was withColgate Palmolive in Minneapolis andChicago before returning to SterlingGrocery Co. of Princeton, WV, where helast served as president. In Florida heworked in the golf program at the BocaLago Country Club and with Cendyn.Irwin Alexander McQueen (BBA’62), Jan. 16, 2008, Cornelia, GA. Heserved in the U.S. Army and in managementat Ford Motor Co. and SoutheastToyota Distributors.Douglas J. McCorkindale (’63),Feb. 13, 2008, Winston-Salem, NC. Heserved in the U.S. Army and was anofficer in the U.S. Air Force. He studiedand taught at the N.C. School of the Arts.Cleveland Mitchell Andrews (’64),Jan. 27, 2008, Southmont, NC. He was arepresentative for Hekman Furniture andseveral other manufacturers in Northand South Carolina for more than 44years. His parents were Lee (’24) andCatherine Andrews. Surviving are hiswife, Meredith, a son and his wife, Joe(’00) and Anne, and two grandchildren.Edmund P. Gaines (MD ’65),March 22, 2008, Greer, SC. He served inthe U.S. Army. In 1967 he joined RiversideFamily Practice, where he remaineduntil his retirement in 1996. He served onthe medical advisory boards of BlueCross Blue Shield and ProvidenceInsurance Co., was chairman of theDepartment of Family Practice forGreenville Memorial Hospital and St.Francis Hospital, and served as presidentof the medical staff for the GreenvilleHospital System.Royce Lee Givens Jr. (’66), March 23,2008, Falls Church,VA. He served in theU.S. Army in Vietnam and received theBronze Star. He practiced law in Leesburguntil his retirement in 2005, was a realtorwith Coldwell Banker and a part-timeinstructor in the School of Business atNorthern Virginia Community College.His last three years were spent participatingin the Phase I Studies testing newcancer drugs at Johns Hopkins CancerCenter. He is survived by his wife,Sandra Couples Givens (’65), two stepdaughtersand six step grandchildren.Robert Burton Hudson Jr. (BBA ’66),Feb. 4, 2008, Davidson, NC. He served inthe U.S. Air Force during the VietnamWar and earned an MBA in finance fromFlorida State University. He received hischartered financial analyst designationwhile at Gulf United Corp. in Jacksonville,FL. He taught at Pfeiffer College,was director of investments at UNC-Chapel Hill and was director of investmentsand financial planning forDavidson College, where he retired in2008.76 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

William Charles Eason III (’68),Feb. 20, 2008, Middletown, PA.Michael Ted Reck (’68), Jan. 25, 2008,Hanover, PA. He served in the U.S. Armyduring the Vietnam War. He was in retailsales in Hanover, PA, and Casper, WY.Larry Dale Wilkinson (MAEd ’72),Feb. 4, 2008, Lake Junaluska, NC. He wasa United Methodist minister for 46 years,serving in High Point, Jamestown,Reidsville,Valdese, Wadesboro, Waynesville,and Winston-Salem, NC. He wasdistrict superintendent in Gastonia,Marion, Providence, Waynesville andWilkesboro. He retired in 2001. He was acapital campaign director for ChurchFunding Associations in the WesternNorth Carolina Conference before andafter retirement.Susan A. McDonald (’73), Feb. 2, 2008,Charlotte, NC. She had professionalcareers in banking and consulting services.She is survived by her two sons, Willand David.Charlie Marion Brackett (’74),Feb. 15, 2008, Charlotte, NC. He receivedhis MBA from Emory University and waschief financial officer at Tidewater Golfand Plantation in South Carolina.Shirley Colquiett Wilson (’74),Jan. 31, 2008, Charlotte, NC. She workedat Wachovia Corp. for 20 years, mostrecently as senior vice president andmanager for deployment and field services.In 2005 she received an award forher leadership in New Media and IT atthe National Women of Color TechnologyConference.Timothy Marshall Browder (’78),March 3, 2008, Boston, MA. He receivedhis MD from Duke University MedicalCenter and completed his residency atTexas Children’s Hospital. He didresearch at the National Institutes ofHealth in Bethesda, MD. He was anassistant professor in pediatric hematology-oncologyat Children’s Hospital,Harvard Medical School, was at theDana-Farber Cancer Institute and atMassachusetts General Hospital inBoston. He was preceeded in death byhis father, Joseph Browder (’43). Heis survived by his mother, Carlotta, twosisters, Donna Moyer (’75) and BeckyNeustadt, and a brother, Kevin.Hugh Edward Warner (’78), March 2,2008, Charleston, WV. He was a computerprogrammer for the state of West Virginiafor the last seven years.Thomas Cain Dunn (MBA ’79),March 25, 2008, Winston-Salem, NC. Hewas born and raised in China, coming toAmerica in 1947 at the age of 20. He wasproficient in seven languages and was amember of Toastmasters International for45 years. He worked for ThermoidRubber Co., Johnson & Johnson, DuPont,Cornelius, Hanes Dye & Finishing Co.and Lydall before founding DunnEnterprises in 1980. He retired in 1997and continued to teach Chinese andEnglish as a second language. Hepublished an art/history book, “MyFavorite Moravian Churches,” and anautobiography, “Spring River Runs East.”He is survived by his wife, Beth, fivesons, Thomas II (’91), Alex, Peter,Alexander and Ben, nine grandchildrenand one great-grandchild.Stephen Fairbank Davis Jr. (’82),Feb. 23, 2008, Woodbridge,VA. He receivedhis master’s from Tufts University. He wasa commanding officer and served 25 yearsin the U.S. Navy. He was buried atArlington National Cemetery.Anne Alene Isaac (JD ’82), Jan. 20,2008, Greensboro, NC. She had a solofamily law practice in Greensboro.Keith J. Hege (PA ’86), March 19, 2008,Ronda, NC. He was retired from CenterPoint. He is survived by a son, NicholasTyler, and three daughters, Angela,Samantha (’10) and Sydney.Michael William Sigler (JD ’87),Feb. 3, 2008, Spartanburg, SC. He wasnamed the “Best Amateur Actor” inChicago while at the Goodman School ofTheater and toured with the NationalShakespeare Co. He was assistant to thedirector of the Duke University Press,had a private law practice in North andSouth Carolina, was a claims consultantwith The Hartford in Charlotte, NC, andwas a language arts teacher at the EstillMiddle School in Estill, SC.A. Michael Barbiere (’07), Feb. 8, 2008,Breckenridge, CO. He attended WakeForest for two years and graduated fromNew York University. He was an independenttrader of heating oil at theoffices of Tradewise in Glen Rock, NJ.Ronald Matthew Gutt (MBA ’76),Feb. 26, 2008, Raleigh, NC. He was a cadetof West Point Military Academy andserved in the U.S. Army. He retired fromIBM after more than 30 years.Melia Adele Black (’81), Feb. 17, 2008,Winston-Salem, NC. She worked inaccounting and internal audit.www.wfu.edu/alumni JUNE 2008 77

Friends,Faculty/StaffWilliam Arthur Comer, Feb. 10, 2008,Boonville, NC. He was a farmer andretired carpentry supervisor in facilitiesat Wake Forest. He was preceded indeath by his wife, Gerthorine. He is survivedby two sons, William Tony (’66)and Stephen Wray (’70, MAEd ’73),two grandsons and a great-granddaughter.Alfred Robert Cordell, April 9, 2008,Winston-Salem, NC. He was a retiredprofessor at the Wake Forest UniversitySchool of Medicine and a leader in cardiothoracicand vascular surgery. Hejoined the staff of the then Bowman GraySchool of Medicine in 1957 as an instructorand director of Surgical Research andwas later promoted to professor of surgery.From 1979 until 1991, he was theHoward Holt Bradshaw Professor ofSurgery and chairman, Department ofCardiothoracic Surgery. He was bestknown for developing techniques inmyocardial preservation and blood conservation,and for establishing a preeminentopen-heart program. He wasnamed professor emeritus in 1995. Agraduate of Johns Hopkins UniversitySchool of Medicine, he served in theMedical Corps, U.S. Navy Reserve, fortwo years during the Korean War, firstin a MASH unit in Korea and then atPortsmouth Naval Hospital. He completedhis training in general and thoracicsurgery at Bowman Gray in 1956 andjoined the faculty a year later after teachingat the Buffalo School of Medicine.He was preceded in death by his wife,DeWitt Cromer Cordell, and a son,Franklin Cromer Cordell (’81). He issurvived by three sons, Alfred RobertCordell Jr., Mark Bynum Cordell andCarl DeWitt Cordell, and four grandchildren.Memorials may be made to the A.Robert Cordell Chair in CardiothoracicSurgery, Wake Forest University BaptistMedical Center, Medical CenterBoulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1021.Reginald Kinard Oakes, March 30,2008, Winston-Salem, NC. He was at SaraLee Hosiery for 20 years before workingat Wake Forest as a custodian. He is survivedby his wife and two children.Marilyn J. Schaefer, April 5, 2008,Tobaccoville, NC. She was the administrativeassistant from 1987 to 1997 forformer Vice President of UniversityAdvancement G. William Joyner. She issurvived by a brother and three sistersand many nieces and nephews.Anne Carter Shelley, Feb. 9, 2008,Rock Hill, SC. She served in the ministryin Butner, Durham, Statesville andYadkinville, NC. She was an associatepresbyter, taught lay pastors, was electedmoderator of Salem Presbytery andwrote several articles, chapters and abook. She was an adjunct faculty memberin the religion department at WakeForest and taught English at AppalachianState.Keith E. Strauss Sr., Feb. 12, 2008,Clemmons, NC. He was retired fromfacilities management at Wake Forest. Hewas predeceased by his wife, Marian. Heis survived by four children and sixgrandchildren.78 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

The Presidential Trustfor Faculty ExcellenceA message from President Nathan O. HatchOne of my top priorities since arrivingat Wake Forest has been to increasethe amount of resources available for ourfaculty. In June 2006, we launched thePresidential Trust for Faculty Excellencewith a goal of raising $10 million for facultysupport.Wake Forest integrates the intimacyof a liberal arts college with the academicvitality of a research university. Unliketypical research universities, we believe inthe teacher-scholar model and are committedto recruiting and developing firstratefaculty who have a special interest inteaching and mentoring. Our faculty areresponsible for being outstanding classroomteachers and researchers, which is avery difficult and demanding role to play.And because we ask our faculty to domore, we have to compensate themaccordingly.We have begun to address the seriousissue of faculty salaries at Wake Forest.I’m pleased to announce that the firstgoal of $10 million to the PresidentialTrust has been surpassed with commitmentstotaling more than $12 million.Twenty-one new faculty endowmentshave been established. This is a significantaccomplishment, and I thank those whohave given for their leadership investmentin our faculty.Andy Sterge (’81) providesgift for faculty supportDr. Andy Sterge (’81) has supported the PresidentialTrust for Faculty Excellence by making a generousaddition to the Andrew J. Sterge Faculty Fellowship, whichhe established in 1999. The fund provides support for facultymembers teaching mathematics at Wake Forest who havedemonstrated excellence in the classroom and a commitmentto academic scholarship. Seven mathematics facultymembers have received the fellowship: Steve Robinson, EdAllen, Kenneth Berenhaut and Hugh Howards, and thethree current fellows: Miaohua Jiang, Sarah Raynor andGreg Warrington.“Your generous gift has allowed me to go to workshops andconferences to work with my research collaborators morefrequently. Over the years, I usually buy only one or twomathematical monographs a year. But during the past halfyear, I bought five. But, to me, a gift from you has very specialmeanings. It is a statement affirming the high qualityeducation Wake Forest has been providing. It is also a statementof encouragement when, sometimes, going gets a littletough. I see every student as a potential Andy whose futuresuccesses and achievements will benefit our society for generationsto come.”—Miaohua Jiang, Andrew J. Sterge Faculty Fellowand Associate Professor of MathematicsLeft to right: Greg Warrington, Sarah Groff Raynor, Steve Robinson,Andy Sterge (’81), Nicholas Sterge and Miaohua Jiangwww.wfu.edu/alumni JUNE 2008 79

C O N S T A N T & T R U EWe are Wake Forest.By President Nathan O. HatchWake Forest has an extraordinaryhistory and identity. Wehave built a strong niche in highereducation in part because we havebeen able to blend successfully whatis often at odds. We have been ableto integrate the intimacy of an undergraduateliberal arts college with theacademic vitality of a research university.We combine the best of bothworlds.Wake Forest has quietly andsteadily progressed in stature andreputation over the last fifty years.We have always been an institutionthat has taken big risks—moving toWinston-Salem, starting our variousprofessional schools, leaving theestablished Southern Conference tojoin the ACC, changing the school’srelationship with North CarolinaBaptists, and creating a new biotechresearch park that promises to revitalizeour local economy.Across many decades, WakeForest’s leaders—trustees, administrators,faculty, staff, and alumni—have understood the risks and rewardsof such bold endeavors. And now in2008, Wake Forest is poised to takeits next steps into the future.In 2006, the University began astrategic planning process designedto distinguish Wake Forest’s placein the highly competitive and everchanging world of higher education.As part of the strategic planningprocess, Wake Forest reviewed itsvisual identity—how we representourselves. The University’s corporatelogo had served us well for 23 years.Wake Forest engaged in aredesign of our logo, using aUniversity-wide team of faculty,staff, students, and expert designconsultants. We have found a logothat represents our past, our present,and our future. One that reflects thecomplexities and dualities of theWake Forest experience.At the heart of Wake Forest hasalways been a creative tension betweentwo complementary sides—theteacher-scholar ideal…an intimatecollegiate university with the resourcesof a large university…thedevelopment of the whole person,both mind and spirit…outstandingundergraduate and graduate andprofessional programs…the Reynoldaand Bowman Gray campuses.We are a close-knit, face-to-facecommunity and our paths intertwinefrequently, on a social level, acrossdisciplines and through interdisciplinaryresearch, and in the interactionbetween faculty, staff, and students.We are rooted in the valuableand timeless ideals that Wake Forestrepresents even as we set new stretchgoals for our future.We are Wake Forest.As we look forward to theUniversity’s strategic plan, we arekeeping the best of Wake Forest’straditions and updating them with abold vision. The sum of all theseparts is the new Wake Forest logo.80 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE

KEN BENNETT KEN BENNETTWake Forest was a popular stopon the presidential campaigntrail this spring. Democraticpresidential hopeful Sen. HillaryClinton spoke in Wait Chapel onApril 18 during a conversationwith Maya Angelou, ReynoldsProfessor of American Studies.Republican Sen. John McCaingreeted supporters outside WaitChapel following a May 6 campaignspeech outlining his planfor the federal judicial system.